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THE  LIBRARY 

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THE  UNIVERSITY 
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MRS.  AMELIA  C.  WAITE. 
President  National  Mary  Washington  Memorial  Association. 


THE 


BUILDING  OF  A  MONUMENT 


A  HISTORY  OF  THE 

MARY  WASHINGTON  ASSOCIATIONS 

AND  THEIR  WORK. 


SUSAN  RIVIERE  HETZEL, 

Secretary  N.  M.  W.  M.  A. 


LANCASTER,  PA.: 

PRESS  OF  WICKBKSHAM  COMPANY, 
1903. 


COPYRIGHT,  1902 

BY 
SUSAN  R.  HETZEL. 


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2(  Cooing  memorial 

TO 

AMELIA  C.  WAITE  AND  MARGARETTA  J.  HETZEL 
AND  ALL  WHO  HAVE  GONE  BEFORE, 

AND  TO  THE 

LIVING  VICE-PRESIDENTS  AND  OTHER  WORKERS 

WHOSE   UNBOUNDED   ENTHUSIASM,   ENERGY  AND  INDUSTRY 

HAVE   AIDED   IN 
ACCOMPLISHING  THIS  BUILDING, 

THIS  LITTLE  VOLUME  IS  AFFECTIONATELY   DEDICATED 
BY  THEIR  FRIEND  AND  CO-WORKER 

S.  R.  H. 


LIST  OF  ILLUSTRATIONS. 


MRS.  AMELIA  C.  WAITE,  President  National  Mary  Wash- 
ington Memorial  Association,  .  Frontispiece. 

PAGE 

"THE  TERRIBLE  ADVERTISEMENT."  From  a  photograph 
of  an  original  advertisement  in  the  scrap-book  of  Mr. 
F.  B.  McGuire,  of  Washington,  D.  C.  .  .24 

MRS.  MARGARETTA  HETZEL,  Secretary,          .  .  30 

MRS.  M.  V.  TERHUNE,  (Marion  Harland),  .  .       57 

Miss  MARY  DESHA,  Founder,  Daughters  of  the  American 

Revolution,  Vice-President  at  Large,  N.  M.  W.  M.  A.     70 
MRS.  W.  P.  DILLINGHAM,  (Vermont),  .  .  76 

MRS.   H.  IRVINE  KEYSER  (nee  Mary  Washington),  Vice- 

Fresident  of  Maryland,  .  .  .  .80 

MRS.  ROGER  A.  PRYOR  (nee  Sarah  Agnes  Rice),  Vice- 
President  at  Large,  .  .  .  .  90 
INSIGNIA,  Obverse  Side,  .  .  .  .  94 
MRS.  M.  V.  MACON,  Vice-President  of  Colorado,  ,'  107 
MRS.  AUGUSTA  M.  DOLPH,  Vice-President  of  Oregon,  113 
MRS.  ABRAHAM  LANSING  (nee  Catherine  Gansevoort), 

Vice-President  of  New  York,              .             .  1 1 7 

MRS.  EDWARD  ROBY  (nee  Lelia  P.  Foster),  Vice-President 

at  Large,  .  .  .  .  1 19 

THE  MARY  WASHINGTON  MONUMENT  AND  LODGE,     .          204 
MRS.  W.  W.  WiLCOX  (nee  Elizabeth  Shepard  Crittenden), 

Vice-President  of  Connecticut,      .  \  ,221 

MRS.  JAMES  FAIRMAN  (nee  Sarah  Elizabeth  Holden),  Chair- 
man New  York  City  Chapter,  N.  M.  W.  M.  A.,      .       227 
Miss  SUSAN  RIVIERE  HETZEL,  .  ,  .          232 

INSIGNIA,  Reverse  Side,     .....     254 


CHAPTER  I. 

THE    DEATH    OF    MARY    WASHINGTON. 

GENERAL  WASHINGTON  had  been  President 
four  months  when  his  mother  died  in  Fred- 
ericksburg,  on  August  25th,  1789. 

Robert  Lewis,  the  nephew  and  private 
secretary  of  the  General,  tells  us  in  his  jour- 
nal that  the  President  did  not  receive  the 
news  of  his  mother's  death  until  September 
ist.  A  letter  from  Colonel  Burges  Ball, 
containing  the  sad  news,  arrived  while  he 
was  seated  at  dinner,  enjoying  the  bright  and 
witty  conversation  of  Baron  von  Steuben  and 
Governor  St.  Clair.  Robert  Lewis  further 
states,  that  when  he  opened  the  letter,  "  My 
uncle  immediately  retired  to  his  room  and 
remained  there  some  time  alone." 

Alone  with  the  past,  with  the  fond  mem- 
ories of  the  devoted  mother.  Did  he  recall 
his  infancy  at  Wakefield,  his  childhood  at 
Pine  Grove,  and  the  stern  but  loving  rule 
of  his  widowed  parent?  the  inflexible  regard 
for  truth  and  right  which  she  had  so  firmly 
(i) 


2  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

implanted  in  his  character?  her  toils  and 
sacrifices  to  secure  to  her  children  their  un- 
impaired patrimony  ?  her  protest  against  his 
entering  the  Royal  Navy  ? — simply  the  fears 
and  anxieties  of  a  fond  mother,  but  of  what 
immeasurable  advantage  to  the  Colonies  and 
the  world.  Who  could  forget  her  hatred 
of  shams,  of  flattery,  of  anything  false,  even 
to  avoidance  of  any  allusion  to  his  glory,  lest 
his  head  should  be  turned  by  too  much 
praise  ? — though  she  loved  him  all  the  more 
tenderly ;  and  when  old  and  broken  in  health, 
she  consented  to  appear  at  the  Peace  Ball  at 
Fredericksburg. 

Her  death  was  not  unexpected.  His  last 
act,  before  his  departure  for  New  York  to 
assume  the  duties  of  President,  was  to  visit 
his  mother  at  Fredericksburg.  A  few  days 
after  receiving  the  sad  intelligence  he  wrote 
the  following  touching  letter  to  his  sister, 
Mrs.  Betty  Lewis : 

"  My  dear  Sister  : 

"  Colonel  Ball's  letter  gave  me  the  first  account 
of  my  mother's  death.  Since  that  I  have  received 
Mrs.  Carter's  letter,  written  at  your  request;  and 
previous  to  both  I  was  prepared  for  the  event  by 
advices  of  her  illness  coming  to  your  son  Robert. 


DEATH    OF    MARY    WASHINGTON.  3 

"  Awful  and  affecting  as  the  death  of  a  parent  is, 
there  is  consolation  in  knowing  that  Heaven  has 
spared  ours  to  an  age  beyond  which  few  attain,  and 
favoured  her  with  the  full  enjoyment  of  her  mental 
faculties  and  as  much  bodily  strength  as  usually 
falls  to  fourscore.  Under  these  circumstances,  and 
in  the  hope  that  she  is  translated  to  a  happier  place, 
it  is  the  duty  of  her  relatives  to  yield  submission  to 
the  decree  of  the  Creator. 

"  When  I  was  last  in  Fredericksburg  I  took  a 
final  leave  of  my  mother,  never  expecting  to  see 
her  more. 

"  Your  affectionate  brother, 

"  GEORGE  WASHINGTON." 

On  August  28,  1789,  Mary  Ball  Wash- 
ington was  laid  to  rest.  Business  was  sus- 
pended in  the  city  of  Fredericksburg ;  crape 
hung  from  the  houses.  The  church  was 
thronged  with  her  friends  and  neighbors, 
who  followed  her  loving  daughter  and  grand- 
children to  the  place  chosen  by  herself  for 
her  last  resting-place,  near  the  granite  boulder 
now  called  "Oratory  Rock,"  where  she  loved 
to  retire  and  pray  for  her  beloved  son  during 
the  troublous  days  of  the  Revolution.  The 
coffin  was  carried  from  the  church  on  men's 
shoulders;  the  knoll  was  covered  by  the 


4  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

concourse  of  mourners  and  spectators,  for 
they  had  lost  not  only  the  mother  of  the 
President,  but  an  old  and  beloved  friend. 

The  mourning  was  general  all  over  the 
country ;  press  and  pulpit  made  note  of  the 
event.  Members  of  Congress  wore  crape  for 
thirty  days  as  for  a  distinguished  official. 
Congress  passed  a  resolution  to  erect  a  monu- 
ment to  the  mother  of  Washington,  and  to 
that  resolution  General  Washington  re- 
sponded in  a  note  of  thanks,  adding  :  "I  at- 
tribute all  my  success  in  life  to  the  moral, 
intellectual  and  physical  education  which  I 
received  from  my  mother." 

How  well  the  Government  fulfilled  this 
resolution,  any  one  can  see  who  reads  these 
pages  and  recalls  the  hundred  years  that  in- 
tervened between  the  passage  of  this  resolu- 
tion and  the  building  of  the  monument.  In 
truth  the  work  of  forming  a  new  Republic  was 
no  light  task.  Washington's  administrations 
were  hampered  by  the  Indian  Wars,  the 
Whiskey  Insurrection  and  Shay's  rebellion. 
Adams's  term  was  taken  up  with  the  French 
troubles,  and  the  threatened  war  with  the 
Directory.  Jefferson's  was  filled  with  the  wars 


DEATH    OF    MARY    WASHINGTON.  5 

with  the  pirates  of  Tripoli ,  Lewis  and  Clarke's 
marvelous  march  to  the  Pacific,  the  Louisiana 
purchase  and  Aaron  Burr's  conspiracy  ;  dur- 
ing Madison's  administration  Congress  could 
of  course  think  of  nothing  but  the  second  war 
with  England.  It  took  a  long  time  for  the 
country  to  recover  from  that  war,  and  so  it 
happened  that  nothing  but  a  little  headstone 
marked  the  grave  of  Mary  Washington  when 
Lafayette  revisited  this  country  in  1825. 


CHAPTER  II. 

THE    FIRST   CORNER   STONE. 

IN  1826  a  strong  appeal  for  a  monument 
to  Mary  Washington  was  written  by  George 
Washington  Parke  Custis,  the  grandson  of 
Martha  Washington,  the  adopted  child  of  his 
grandmother  and  her  renowned  spouse.  Mr. 
Custis  wrote  the  life  of  Mary  Washington  as 
he  had  heard  it  from  his  grandmother  and  his 
adopted  grandfather,  and  when  one  reads  this 
account,  one  realizes  how  great  was  Wash- 
ington's love  and  veneration  for  his  mother. 
This  life  is  to  be  found  in  Mr.  Custis'  Remin- 
iscences. Lossing  the  historian,  Captain 
George  Washington  Ball  in  his  "  Monograph," 
Marion  Harland,  and  other  biographers  of 
Mary  Washington  have  quoted  freely  from 
this  eulogy  of  the  noble  matron.  This  appeal 
awoke  great  interest  all  over  the  country. 

In  1830,  the  people  of  Fredericksburg  en- 
deavored to  raise  by  subscription,  sufficient 
money  to  build  a  monument  over  the  grave 
of  Mary  Washington.  They  succeeded  in 
(6) 


THE    FIRST   CORNER    STONE.  7 

accumulating  about  two  thousand  dollars, 
when  Silas  E.  Burrows,  a  rich  New  Yorker, 
became  so  interested  in  this  endeavor  to  honor 
the  mother  of  Washington,  that  on  April  1 9th, 
1831,  he  wrote  a  letter  to  the  Mayor  of  Fred- 
ericksburg,  Thomas  Goodwin,  of  which  the 
following  is  an  extract : 

"  I  have  seen  with  the  greatest  interest,  the  efforts 
made  by  the  citizens  of  Fredericksburg  to  erect  a 
monument  over  the  remains,  and  to  rescue  from  ob- 
livion, the  sacred  spot  where  reposes  the  great 
American  mother  :  Mary  the  Mother  of  Washington. 
I  have  also  seen  an  article  published  in  the  Com- 
mercial Advertiser  of  this  city,  proposing  to  remove 
the  remains  of  Mrs.  Washington  from  the  spot  se- 
lected by  herself,  where  they  now  rest,  and  to  place 
them  within  the  walls  of  a  Presbyterian  Church  to 
be  erected  for  that  purpose. 

I  feel  a  great  interest  that  the  ashes  of  this  good 
American  mother  should  remain  where  they  are, 
and  I  wish  to  be  allowed  the  honor  of  individually 
erecting  the  monument,  which  I  assure  you  sir,  shall 
be  in  the  style  and  execution  to  please  the  family  of 
Washington  and  the  citizens  of  the  United  States. 
Let  her  sleep  upon  the  bosom  of  her  own  mother 
earth  where  she  selected  her  pillow,  and  let  the 
willow  of  Mount  Vernon,  from  the  tomb  of  her  son, 
be  transplanted  to  wave  through  time  over  the 
mother's  grave. 


8  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Be  pleased  sir,  to  make  this  communication  known 
to  the  Washington  family  and  all  interested."  *  *  * 

Mr.  Burrows'  generous  offer  was  accepted, 
and  he  proceeded  with  the  work  he  had  vol- 
untarily accepted.  On  May  yth,  1833,  the 
corner  stone  of  the  monument  was  laid  by 
President  Andrew  Jackson. 

A  full  report  of  the  ceremony  of  laying  the 
corner  stone  was  published  in  Fredericksburg 
at  the  time.  A  reprint  of  this  account  is  now 
before  me  and  I  will  give  my  readers  the 
benefit  of  a  part : 

"  The  President,  Andrew  Jackson,  not  only  at- 
tended, but  three  days  were  consumed  by  him  in 
doing  honor  to  Washington's  mother — one  day  in 
coming  here,  one  day  in  the  exercises,  and  one  day 
in  returning.  Captain  Kinsey's  company  of  Rifle- 
men from  the  District  of  Columbia  came  here,  as 
did  also  the  Marine  Band  from  the  Navy  Yard, 
Captain  Brockett's  Light  Infantry  from  Alexandria, 
and  a  Troop  of  Light  Horse  from  Fauquier  under 
Colonel  Fauntleroy. 

The  President  was  attended  by  Hon.  Lewis  Cass, 
Secretary  of  War,  Hon.  Roger  B.  Taney,  Attorney 
General,  and  Major  Donelson,  Private  Secretary. 

The  ceremonies  were  followed,  according  to  the 
Fredericksburg  Arena,  with  "  a  barbecue  in  the  old 


THE    FIRST    CORNER    STONE.  9 

Virginia  style,  prepared  under  an  ample  awning  in 
the  beautiful  grove  of  Hazel  Hill,  which  was  par- 
taken of  by  about  5000  persons.  Among  the  invited 
guests  present,  were  the  President  and  heads  of  de- 
partments, the  military  Companies  from  a  distance, 
and  all  strangers  of  distinction.  At  4  o'clock  danc- 
ing commenced  and  was  kept  up  with  considerable 
spirit  until  near  sunset.  The  arrangements  were 
excellent  and  the  entertainment  did  great  credit  to 
the  contractors,  Messrs.  Blackburn  and  Curtis. 

At  about  9  o'clock  the  President  was  escorted 
from  his  lodgings  to  the  town  hall,  where  he  was 
introduced  to  a  number  of  citizens  and  strangers, 
who  called  to  pay  their  respects  to  the  chief  magis- 
trate of  the  nation.  The  day  was  fine,  and  the  occa- 
sion attracted  a  large  concourse  of  persons  from  the 
adjoining  counties.  The  procession  set  out  from 
the  town  hall  at  half  past  ten  o'clock,  and  moved 
according  to  the  arrangements  of  the  committee,  in 
the  order  and  through  the  several  streets  previously 
designated,  to  the  site  of  the  monument." 

THE  ORDER  OF  PROCESSION  AND  ITS  MOVEMENTS. 

1 .  Architect  and  his  Assistants. 

2.  Silas  H.  Burrows. 

3.  Monumental  Committee. 

4.  President  of  the  United  States  and  Cabinet. 

5.  Clergy  and  relatives  of  Mrs.  Washington. 

6.  Mayor  and  Corporate  Authorities. 


IO  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

7.  Naval  and  Military  Officers. 

8.  Masonic  Societies. 

9.  Band  of  Music. 

10.  Military. 

11.  Teachers  and  their  Pupils. 

12.  Citizens  and  Strangers. 

There  was  one  chief  Marshal,  Colonel 
Bankhead,  and  twelve  Assistants  on  the  oc- 
casion. 

The  Masonic  Societies,  Band  and  Military 
formed  at  the  Court  House  and  marched  to 
the  Town  Hall,  where  they  joined  the  rest  of 
the  procession. 

Fredericksburg  had  then  three  military 
companies :  The  Fredericksburg  Guards,  the 
Rifle  Company  and  the  Fredericksburg  Blues, 
Junior.  The  Junior  Blues  was  a  company  of 
"youths"  (small  boys  in  full  uniform  with 
wooden  guns). 

One  of  the  Fredericksburg  journals  thus 
describes  the  effect :  "  As  the  procession 
moved  up  Main  street,  the  extended  line,  the 
various  uniforms  of  the  military,  the  gittering 
arms,  the  music,  the  dense  mass  that  thronged 
the  sidewalks,  the  crowded  windows  over- 
looking the  scene,  altogether  presented  a  view 
grand  and  imposing." 


THE    FIRST   CORNER    STONE.  II 

The  ceremonies  opened  with  a  prayer  by 
Rev.  E.  C.  McGuire,  followed  by  an  address 
from  Mr.  Bassett,  Chairman  of  the  Monument 
Committee.  Both  Mr.  McGuire  and  Mr.  Bas- 
sett were  sons-in-law  of  Robert  Lewis,  the  son 
of  Betty  Washington  and  Fielding  Lewis, 
mentioned  on  pages  i  and  2  of  this  volume. 
Mr.  Bassett  was  also  a  grand-nephew  of  Mrs. 
Martha  Washington. 

Mr.  Bassett  said : 

"In  the  name  of  the  Monumental  Committee,  I 
present  you,  General,  the  plate  which  is  intended  to 
distinguish  that  stone  just  adjusted  by  the  Master 
of  the  Lodge  as  the  corner  stone  of  this  pile.  *  *  * 
In  looking  upon  this  monument,  (raised  chiefly  by 
the  munificence  of  a  patriotic  individual)  the  citizens 
of  the  States  will  remember  that  they  are  brothers. 
They  will  remember  that  here  lie  the  ashes  of  the 
mother  of  the  "Father  of  his  Country."  They  will 
acknowledge  to  this  just  tribute  to  the  merits  of  her 
who  early  deprived  of  the  support  of  her  consort, 
encouraged  and  fostered  by  precept  and  example, 
the  dawning  virtues  of  her  illustrious  son,  and  mus- 
tered into  maturing  those  faculties  which  were  the 
ornament  and  glory  of  her  waning  years.  They 
will  acknowledge  the  hallowed  character  of  this  ro- 
mantic spot,  ever  to  be  remembered  as  the  place 
chosen  for  her  private  deuotions — the  spot  to  which 


12  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

she  often  led  her  offspring,  and  pointing  to  the  order 
and  beauty  of  the  works  of  nature,  here  so  eminently 
displayed,  she  guided  their  youthful  minds  to  con- 
template the  power  and  benevolence  of  the  great 
author  of  their  being.  Here  she  taught  the  attri- 
butes of  God — that  to  him  as  their  Creator  all  praise 
belonged — that  to  glorify  him  was  the  object  of  their 
creation,  and  to  this  end  every  energy  should  be 
devoted.  Here,  she  asked  as  a  dying  request  that 
her  mortal  remains  might  rest.  Hallowed  be  this 
wish,  sacred  this  spot.  *  *  *  Let  us  carry  with  us 
hence,  engraved  on  our  hearts,  the  memory  of  her 
who  is  here  interred.  Her  fortitude,  her  piety,  her 
every  grace  of  life,  her  sweet  peace  in  death  through 
her  sure  hope  of  blessed  immoriality." 

General  Jackson  replied  in  an  eloquent  ad- 
dress. Marion  Harland,  in  her  beautiful 
"Story  of  Mary  Washington,"  says:  "The 
President  dwelt  at  length  upon  the  character- 
istics of  her  they  had  met  to  honor,  a  eulogy 
which  hundreds  of  his  auditors  could  have 
verified,  or  challenged  from  their  own  mem- 
ories. As  the  speaker  gained  his  information 
from  Madame  Washington's  contemporaries, 
his  verdict  is  of  distinct  value." 

After  an  acknowledgment  of  the  courte- 
sies of  the  Monumental  Committee  and  a  fine 
eulogy  of  Washington,  the  President  said : 


THE    FIRST   CORNER    STONE.  13 

"  The  mother  and  son  are  beyond  the  reach  of 
human  applause :  but  the  bright  examples  of  parental 
and  filial  excellence  which  their  conduct  furnishes, 
cannot  but  produce  the  most  salutary  effects  on  our 
countrymen.  Let  their  examples  be  before  us,  from 
the  first  lesson  which  is  taught  the  child,  'till  the 
mother's  duties  yield  to  the  course  of  preparation 
and  action  which  nature  prescribes  for  him.  *  *  * 

Tradition  says  that  the  character  of  Washington 
was  aided  and  strengthened,  if  not  formed,  by  the 
care  and  precepts  of  his  mother.  She  was  remark- 
able for  the  vigor  of  her  intellect  and  the  firmness  of 
her  resolution.  Left  in  early  life  the  sole  parent  of 
a  young  and  numerous  family,  she  devoted  herself 
with  exemplary  fidelity  to  the  task  of  guiding  and 
educating  them.  With  limited  resources  she.  was 
able  by  care  and  economy  to  provide  for  them,  and 
to  ensure  them  a  respectable  entrance  upon  the 
duties  of  life.  A  firm  believer  in  the  sacred  truths 
of  religion,  she  taught  its  principles  to  her  children, 
and  inculcated  an  early  obedience  to  its  injunctions. 
It  is  said  by  those  who  knew  her  intimately,  that 
she  acquired  a  wonderful  ascendency  over  those 
around  her.  This  true  characteristic  of  genius  at- 
tended her  through  life,  and  even  into  its  decline, 
after  her  son  had  led  his  country  to  independence, 
and  had  been  called  to  preside  over  her  counsels,  he 
approached  her  with  the  same  reverence  she  had 
taught  him  to  exhibit  in  early  youth.  This  course 


14  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

of  maternal  discipline  no  doubt  restrained  the  nat- 
ural ardour  of  his  temperament,  and  conferred  upon 
him  that  power  of  self  command,  which  was  one  of 
the  most  remarkable  traits  of  his  character. 

On  tracing  the  few  recollections  which  can  be 
gathered  of  her  principles  and  conduct,  it  is  impos- 
sible to  avoid  the  conviction  that  they  are  closely 
interwoven  with  the  destiny  of  her  son.  The  great 
points  of  his  character  are  before  the  world.  He 
who  runs  may  read  them  in  his  whole  career  as  a 
citizen,  a  soldier,  and  a  magistrate.  *  *  *  Look 
back  at  the  life  and  conduct  of  his  mother,  and  at 
her  domestic  government,  as  they  have  been  this 
day  delineated  by  the  Chairman  of  the  Monumental 
Committee,  and  as  they  were  known  to  her  contem- 
poraries and  described  by  them,  and  they  will  be 
found  admirably  adapted  to  form  and  develop  the 
elements  of  such  a  character.  The  power  of  great- 
ness was  there,  but  had  it  not  been  guided  by  ma- 
ternal solicitude  and  judgment,  its  possessor,  instead 
of  presenting  to  the  world  examples  of  virtue,  patri- 
otism and  wisdom,  which  will  be  precious  in  all 
succeeding  ages,  might  have  added  to  the  number 
of  those  master  spirits  whose  fame  rests  upon  the 
faculties  they  have  abused  and  the  injuries  they  have 
committed. 

How  important  to  the  females  of  this  country  are 
these  reminiscences  of  the  early  life  of  Washington, 
and  the  maternal  care  of  her  upon  whom  its  future 


THE    FIRST   CORNER    STONE.  15 

course  depended.  Affection  less  regulated  by  dis- 
cretion might  have  changed  the  character  of  the  son, 
and  with  it  the  destinies  of  the  nation.  We  have 
reason  to  be  proud  of  the  virtue  and  intelligence  of 
our  females.  As  mothers  and  sisters,  as  wives  and 
daughters,  their  duties  are  performed  with  exemp- 
lary fidelity.  They  no  doubt  realize  the  great  im- 
portance of  the  maternal  character  and  the  powerful 
influence  it  must  exert  upon  the  American  youth. 
Happy  it  is  for  them  and  our  country  that  they  have 
before  them  this  illustrious  example  of  maternal 
devotion,  and  the  bright  reward  of  filial  success." 
******* 

Could  the  chivalrous  old  hero  have  knowr 
what  would  devolve  upon  the  "females"  of  a 
later  generation,  I  do  not  know  whether  he 
would  be  most  gratified  or  mortified.  Yet 
who  shall  say  that  that  corner  stone  was  laid 
in  vain,  when  such  testimonials  to  the  worth 
of  Mary  Washington,  uttered  in  the  presence 
of  those  who  knew  and  loved  her,  still  exist? 
Testimonials  not  only  from  her  family,  but 
from  the  warrior,  statesman  and  President, 
who  had  spared  no  pains  in  learning  her 
character  from  those  who  had  remembered 
her  in  life. 

Though   the   monument  was    never   com- 


1 6  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

pleted,  though  the  stones  crumbled  and  fell, 
the  truth  is  stronger  than  monuments  and 
these  words  should  never  die ;  they  should 
abide  in  the  memory  of  all  true  patriots  and 
forever  confront  and  confound  the  baseless 
slanders  of  latter-day  scoffers. 

Nor  were  the  "  females  "  of  the  day  silent, 
for  the  ceremonies  closed  with  the  reading  of 
the  following  poem  : 

THE  MOTHER  OF  WASHINGTON. 

BY  LYDIA  HUNTLEY  SIGOURNEY, 
Of  Hartford,  Connecticut. 

"  Long  hast  thou  slept  unnoted.     Nature  stole 

In  her  soft  minstrelsy  around  thy  bed,  • 

Spreading  her  vernal  tissue  violet-gemmed 
And  pearled  with  dew. 

She  bade  bright  summer  bring 

Gifts  of  frankincense,  with  sweet  song  of  birds, 
And  Autumn  cast  his  reaper's  coronet 

Down  at  thy  feet ;  the  stormy  Winter  spake 
Sternly  of  man's  neglect ;  but  now  we  come 

To  do  thee  homage,  mother  of  our  chief; 
Fit  homage,  such  as  honoreth  him  who  pays. 

Methinks  we  see  thee  as  in  olden  time, 

Simple  in  garb,  majestic  and  serene, 
Unmoved  by  pomp  or  circumstance^  in  truth 

Inflexible,  and  with  a  Spartan  zeal 
Repressing  vice  and  making  folly  grave. 


THE    FIRST   CORNER    STONE.  1 7 

Thou  didst  not  deem  it  woman's  part  to  waste 

Life  in  inglorious  sloth,  to  sport  awhile 
Amid  the  flowers,  or  on  the  summer's  wave, 

Then  fleet  like  the  ephemeron  away, 
Building  no  temple  in  her  children's  heart 

Save  to  the  vanity  and  pride  of  life 
Which  she  had  worshipped. 

For  the  might  that  clothed 

The  "  Pater  Patria,"  for  the  glorious  deeds 
That  made  Mount  Vernon's  tomb  a  Mecca  shrine 

For  all  on  earth ;  what  thanks  to  thee  are  due 
Who  'mid  his  elements  of  being  wrought, 

We  know  not ;  Heaven  can  tell. 

Rise  sculptured  pile, 

And  show  a  race  unborn  who  sleeps  below; 
And  say  to  mothers  that  a  holy  charge 

Is  theirs ;  with  what  a  kingly  power  their  love 
Might  rule  the  fountains  of  the  unborn  mind. 

Warn  them  to  work  at  early^dawn  and  sow 
Good  seeds  before  the  world  hath  sown  her  tares, 

Nor  in  their  toil  decline,  that  angel  hands 
May  put  their  sickle  in  and  reap  for  God. 

And  gather  to  his  garner,  ye,  who  stand 
With  thrilling  breast  to  view  her  trophied  praise1; 

Who  nobly  reared  Virginia's  godlike  chief. 

Ye,  whose  last  thought  upon  your  nightly  couch, 

Whose  first  at  waking  is  your  cradled  son, 
What  though  no  high  ambition  prompts  to  rear 

A  second  Washington,  or  leave  your  name 
Wrought  out  in  marble,  with  a  nation's  tears 

Of  deathless  gratitude,  yet  you  may  raise 
A  monument  above  the  stars — a  soul 

Led  by  your  teachings  and  your  prayers  to  God, " 
2 


1 8  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Sixty-one  years  later  this  Poem  was  sent  to 
the  Washington  Post,  by  Mrs.  Claudia  B. 
Money  of  Mississippi,  Vice-President  of  the 
National  Mary  Washington  Association,  who 
presented  it  with  these  appropriate  words: 

"  It  is  a  touching  coincidence — the  utter  destruc- 
tion of  the  first  tomb,  and  the  complete  forgetfulness 
of  this  poet,  who  was  at  this  time  very  popular ;  but 
her  writings  are  to  be  found  now  only  in  old  libraries, 
embalmed  in  cream  and  gold.  So  do  all  pass  from 
the  minds  of  men.  So  had  the  memory  of  Mary 
Washington  become  dim  in  the  recollections  of  the 
people  until  some  sudden  patriotic  thought  struck 
the  noble  women  who  rescued  her  from  oblivion. 
We  seem  to  be  looking  abroad  in  the  land  for  the 
names  of  our  illustrious  dead,  and  all  great  deeds, 
to  commemorate  in  bronze  and  marble.  It  is  well 
to  raise  these  landmarks  to  perpetuate  the  history 
of  those  who  have  made  America  first  among  the 
nations  ©f  the  earth — that  those  who  come  after  may 
emulate  and  follow  them," 


CHAPTER  III. 

THE    FIRST    MONUMENT. 

DURING  the  first  four  years  that  succeeded 
the  laying  of  the  corner  stone,  the  monument 
was  built,  the  base  with  the  little  Doric  col- 
umns in  place — the  obelisk  was  brought  to 
the  spot,  ready  to  be  elevated,  when  the  work 
was  suddenly  abandoned.  Various  reasons 
have  been  given  for  its  non-completion. 

There  is  a  Frederickburg  tradition  to  the 
effect  that  Mr.  Burrows  commenced  the 
monument  to  please  a  Virginia  girl,  a  de- 
scendant of  Mary  Washington,  with  whom  he 
was  in  love,  and  that  he  ceased  the  work 
when  she  jilted  him.  This  story  is  too  ob- 
viously mythical  to  deserve  comment,  further 
than  to  say  that  there  is  no  subject  which 
romantic  youth  is  not  prone  to  gild  with  the 
glamour  of  the  "old,  old,  story." 

The    reason   given  by  Mrs.  Ella    Bassett 

Washington  is  that  Mr.  Burrows  was  unable 

to  finish  the  work  owing  to  "a  sudden  reverse 

of  fortune."     Marion  Harland  gives  the  same 

(19) 


2O  BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 

reason  and  so  does  the  Appeal  of  the  Fred- 
erickburg  Association  issued  by  Mrs.  James 
Power  Smith  in  1889;  but  a  contributor  to 
the  Washington  Post,  on  Friday,  May  nth, 
1894,  after  a  diligent  inquiry  among  the  old- 
est inhabitants  of  the  ancient  city  of  Fred- 
ericksburg,  gives  what  appears  to  me  the 
most  probable  reason  for  its  non-completion. 
He  states  that  it  was  owing  to  the  death  of 
the  contractor,  Rufus  Hill,  adding: 

"  It  has  been  for  many  years  a  matter  of 
tradition  that  Mr.  Burrows  started  the  monu- 
ment but  did  not  complete  it  because  he  lost 
his  fortune.  This  is  not  the  case.  Mr.  Bur- 
rows furnished  all  the  money  required  for  the 
completion  of  the  work  before  his  departure 
for  China,  where  he  died  in  the  belief  that  his 
wishes  and  instructions  were  carried  out. 
To  Mrs.  Catherine  Nossett  of  this  city,  who 
was  then  a  girl  in  her  teens,  history  is  now  in- 
debted for  a  true  statement  of  the  facts.  The 
contractor,  Mr.  Hill,  was  a  stone  mason,  and 
working  in  the  hot  sun,  was  stricken  with 
brain  fever  and  died.  His  death  ended  the 
contract,  none  of  his  relatives  thinking  it  in- 
cumbent upon  them  to  go  on  with  the  work." 


THE    FIRST    MONUMENT.  21 

Probably  they  were  not  competent;  it  is 
said  that  the  funds  were  lost  by  the  failure  of 
the  bank  in  which  they  were  deposited.  So 
nothing  was  done,  and  year  after  year  the  un- 
completed monument  stood,  the  shaft  lying 
prone  on  the  ground  beside  it.  In  full  range 
from  the  well  known  Marye's  Heights,  the 
monument  was  riddled  by  bullets  during  the 
Civil  War  ;  the  base  was  battered  by  cannon- 
ading. One  of  the  stones  was  broken  and 
removed  from  its  place,  subjecting  the  found- 
ation to  the  destruction  of  water  and  frost. 
The  ravages  of  war  were  succeeded  by  the 
depredations  of  the  relic-hunter;  the  Vandals 
following  as  the  Goth  of  old. 

Thomas  Scott  in  the  New  York  Times  thus 
describes  it: 

"  The  monument  was  commenced  long  before  the 
great  war  but  never  finished.  For  four  years  it  was 
between  two  armies  and  battle  surged  around  it. 
The  marbles  are  pock-marked  with  bullets  fired  in 
that  sad  time.  Strewn  about  are  the  blocks  of 
marble  and  the  main  shaft  which  was  never  put  in 
place.  It  was  within  sight  of  this  monument  that 
occurred  the  terrible  slaughter  of  our  troops  on  that 
awful  December  day  of  1862.  But  ten  miles  away, 
in  the  following  May,  the  rout  of  Chancellorsville 


22  BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 

took  place;  and  in  May  1864,  within  fifteen  miles, 
was  the  bloody  Wilderness  in  whose  tangles  so 
many  went  down  in  battle,  or  were  burned  in  the 
forest  fires  then  kindled.  Within  ten  miles  was  the 
two  weeks  slaughter  of  Spottsylvania  Court  House. 
*  *  *  So  it  may  be  said  that  within  sound  of 
that  spot  died  over  fifty  thousand  brave  men." 

In  1874  while  the  whole  country  was  occu- 
pied by  the  approaching  Centennial  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  a'  resolution 
was  offered  in  the  House  of  Representatives 
by  Hon.  Charles  Pelham,  "to  consider  the 
practicability  of  finishing  the  Washington  Mon- 
ument by  the  approaching  Centennial,"  and 
"  to  enquire  and  report  as  to  the  practicability 
of  completing  the  unfinished  monument  to 
the  memory  of  Mary  the  Mother  of  Washing- 
ton, at  Fredericksburg." 

Lieutenant  W.  L.  Marshall  of  the  Engineer 
Corps,  U.  S.  Army,  was  directed  by  the 
Secretary  of  War.  to  examine  the  Monument 
and  report  an  its  condition. 

After  a  thorough  examination,  Lieutenant 
Marshall  pronounced  the  monument  "  an  irre- 
parable ruin"  and  recommended  "that  the 
base  be  rebuilt  entirely  of  cut  stone,  that 


THE    FIRST    MONUMENT.  23 

the  present  facing  be  used  for  filling  or  else 
be  erected  in  another  spot  as  a  memento." 
Mr.  Pelham  brought  up  a  bill  for  the  neces- 
sary sum  to  restore  the  monument,  but  it 
failed  to  pass. 

In  1878,  Captin  George  Washington  Ball, 
a  descendant  of  Mary  Washington,  as  well  as 
of  her  cousin  Burges  Ball  of  the  Revolution- 
ary Army,  originated,  "The  Mary  Washing- 
ton Association  of  America,"  which  was  in- 
corporated by  the  Legislature  of  Virginia  in 
1878.  The  Constitution  aimed  to  preserve 
and  protect  the  birthplace  of  Washington,  the 
home  and  grave  of  his  mother,  and  all  places 
sacred  from  their  connection  with  his  life  and 
history,  not  falling  within  the  province  of 
Mount  Vernon  Ladies'  Association  or  the 
Monumental  Association  in  Washington  City. 

Captain  Ball  is  an  eminent  genealogist  and 
antiquarian;  he  entered  into  this  movement 
with  great  energy  and  interest.  In  1885  he 
wrote  an  interesting  Monograph  of  the  Ball 
family,  full  of  many  valuable  memories  of 
Mary  Washington  and  telling  of  the  incor- 
poration of  the  Mary  Washington  Association 
seven  years  previously.  While  Captain  Ball's 


24  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

interest  and  energy  continued  unabated,  that 
of  his  correspondents  and  coadjutors  seemed 
to  flag,  probably  because  they  believed  the 
Government  would  make  the  needed  appro- 
priation. 

In  1886,  Senator  Daniel  of  Virginia,  with 
all  the  force  of  his  matchless  eloquence,  suc- 
ceeded in  getting  a  bill  appropriating  sufficient 
funds  to  complete  the  monument,  through  the 
Senate  of  the  49th  Congress.  It  failed  to 
reach  the  House  of  Representatives.  Again, 
the  bill  passed  the  Senate  of  the  5oth  Con- 
gress and  again  it  failed  to  reach  the  House. 

It  was  during  that  year,  1889,  while  the  5oth 
Congress  was  still  in  session,  on  the  2nd  of 
March,  when  every  one  was  occupied  with  the 
coming  inauguration  of  President  Harrison 
at  Washington,  as  well  as  the  Centennial  of 
the  inauguration  of  Washington  at  New  York, 
that  the  following  advertisement  appeared  in 
the  daily  press  : 

THE  GRAVE  OF  MARY  THE  MOTHER  OF  GENERAL 
GEORGE  WASHINGTON  TO  BE  SOLD 

AT  PUBLIC  AUCTION. 

To  the  ladies  attending  the  inauguration  of  Presi- 
dent   Elect    Harrison.     On   Tuesday,   the    5th   of 


THOMAS    DOWLING.    AUCTIONEER. 


THE 


GRAVE  OF  MARY, 

The  Mother  of  General  George  Washington, 


TO  BE  SOLD  AT 


PUBLIC  AUCTION 

To  th«  Ladies  attesding  the  Inauguration  of  President-Elect  Harrison: 


3vc  .A.  IR,  o  13:   s.,  isse., 

at   K'  ..Y|.»-k  M.,  we  will  idlrr  nt  Public  Outcry,  at 

THE  CAPITAL  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA, 
12  Acres  of  Land,  embracing 

Tim  Grave  anil  fix-  Material  of  tin-  I'oliiii>lu-il  .Monument 
of  MARY,  Hit-  Mother  of  (ienera!  \Va-liin -ton. 


COLBERT  &  KtRTLY 


THOMAS   IMMVLI.X;. 


"THE  TERRIBLE  ADVERTISEMENT." 

From  a  Photograph  of  an  Original  Advertisement  in  the  Scrap- 
Book  of  Mr.  F.  B.  McGuire,  of  Washington,  D.  C. 


THE    FIRST   MONUMENT.  25 

March  1  889,  at  4  o'clock  P.  M.,  we  will  offer  for  sale 
at  public  outcry,  at  the  Capital  of  the  United  States 
of  America,  twelve  acres,  of  land,  embracing  the 
grave,  the  material  of  the  unfinished  monument 
of  Mary,  the  Mother  of  General  George  Washington. 


Real  Estate  Agents. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

THE   TERRIBLE    ADVERTISEMENT. 

MRS.  FIELDING  LEWIS,  nee  Betty  Washing- 
ton— left  her  beautiful  home  in  Fredericksburg 
soon  after  her  mother's  death,  and  spent  her 
remaining  days  with  her  only  daughter,  Mrs. 
Carter,  at  her  home  in  Lancaster  County. 
After  her  death  in  1 797,  her  children  sold  the 
estate  to  the  Gordon  family,  who  established 
their  family  burying  ground  close  by  the 
grave  of  Mary  Washington. 

Many  years  after,  the  Gordons  sold  the 
house,  to  which  they  gave  the  name  of  "Ken- 
more  ",  to  William  Key  Howard,  and  in  1888 
Mr.  Herndon,  the  son-in-law  of  William  K. 
Gordon,  sold  the  ground  surrounding  the 
monument  to  Geo.  W.  Shepherd,  an  aged 
and  esteemed  citizen  of  Fredericksburg,  with 
the  express  stipulation  that  the  family  burying 
ground  and  the  Mary  Washington  monument 
were  not  included  in  the  grant. 

A  year  later,  on  February  27,  1889,  a  firm 
of  Real  Estate  Agents  who  proposed  to  pub- 
(26). 


THE    TERRIBLE    ADVERTISEMENT.  2J 

lish  a  catalogue  of  lands  for  sale  in  Fredericks- 
burg  and  vicinity,  asked  Mr.  Shepherd  for  an 
option  on  his  lots.  Mr.  Shepherd  gave  the 
papers  describing  his  lots  and  designating  the 
Mary  Washington  monument  as  a  landmark. 
On  the  next  day,  the  28th  of  February,  the 
agents  announced  their  intention  of  selling 
the  grave  of  Mary  Washington.  In  an  inter- 
view published  by  the  Fredericksburg  Free 
Lance,  they  said : 

"  Yes  sir,  we  have  the  properly  in  hand  for  sale, 
and  will  offer  it  at  public  outcry  in  the  city  of 
Washington  on  the  5th  of  March.  There  being  no 
disposition  on  the  part  of  either  Congress  or  people 
to  finish  the  monument,  or  to  care  for  the  grave  of 
Mrs.  Washington,  and  feeling  the  general  depression 
of  all  kinds  of  business  and  to  enliven  up  things  we 
have  determined  to  sell  graves,  if  by  so  doing  we 
can  attract  the  attention  of  the  country  to  this  local- 
ity and  bring  money  here  from  other  sections." 

Though  warned  by  a  citizen  of  Fredericks- 
burg  that  the  grave  and  monument  could  not 
be  sold,  the  "terrible  advertisement"  appeared, 
in  the  Washington  Post  of  March  2nd,  and 
there  were  also  issued,  what  Judge  Fauntleroy 
justly  calls,  "  2000  atrocious  handbills,"  as 
follows : 


28  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

GENERAL  GEORGE  WASHINGTON 

THE  TOMB  AND  UNFINISHED  MONUMENT  OF 

MARY,  His  SAINTED  MOTHER. 

On  Tuesday,  the  5th  instant  at  4  o'clock  P.  M. 
at  the  Capital  of  the  United  States  of  America, 
under  authority  vested  in  us  by  the  real  owners  of 
the  property,  we  will  offer  for  sale,  at  public  outcry, 
about  twelve  acres  of  land  situated  within  the  cor- 
poration of  Fredericksburg,  embracing  the  grave  of 
Mary,  the  mother  of  General  George  Washington 
and  also  the  materials  of  her  unfinished  monument. 
At  the  same  time,  we  will  offer  to  the  highest 
bidder,  the  house  in  which  she  lived  and  died,  and 
within  eight  squares  of  her  tomb. 

& 

Real  Estate  Agents,  Fredericksburg,  Va. 

The  record  shows  the  outburst  of  indigna- 
tion and  reprobation  with  which  the  citizens  of 
Fredericksburg,  in  public  meeting  denounced 
this  outrage  upon  public  sensibility. 

As  soon  as  Mr.  Shepherd  learned  of  this 
"shocking  advertisement,"  he  sent  protests 
to  the  agents,  stating  that  he  never  claimed 
to  own  the  monument,  and  their  advertising 
it  for  sale  was  wholly  unauthorized. 

Whereupon  the  firm  entered  suit  against 
Mr.  Shepherd  for  breach  of  contract  and 


THE    TERRIBLE    ADVERTISEMENT.  29 

damages,  thereby  making  their  unheard  of 
course  a  matter  of  record.  The  Fredericks- 
burg  Court  decided  against  them,  March  28, 
1891. 

They  carried  it  to  the  Court  of  Appeals  of 
the  state  of  Virginia  and  the  former  decision 
was  affirmed,  November  i8th,  1862.  It  is 
from  the  opinion  of  Judge  Fauntleroy,  of  the 
Court  of  Appeals  of  Virginia,  that  I  cite  the 
facts  mentioned  in  this  chapter. 


CHAPTER  V. 

THE  WOMAN'S  MOVEMENT. 

ON  April  3oth,  T  889,  the  city  of  New  York 
and  the  whole  United  States  were  occupied 
with  the  celebration  of  the  Centennial  of  Gen- 
eral Washington's  Inaugural.  Every  journal 
and  magazine  was  filled  with  reminiscences  of 
Washington,  his  family,  his  career  and  his 
every  act.  The  incongruity  of  the  aforemen- 
tioned advertisement  caused  outbursts  of  pro- 
test all  over  the  land.  One  article  in  the 
Washington  Post  so  aroused  the  indignant 
sympathy  of  Mrs.  Margaret  Hetzel,  in  her 
country  home  in  Fairfax  county,  Virginia,  that 
she  was  inspired  to  write  the  following  letter 
to  the  Post  on  May  6th,  1889. 

"  MR.  EDITOR  :  The  Post  of  this  morning  quotes 
the  Philadelphia  Evening  Telegraph  as  saying: 
'  Every  patriotic  man,  woman  and  child  in  the  United 
States  ought  to  sympathize  with  and  encourage  the 
movement  to  rescue  from  neglect  and  oblivion  the 
grave  of  the  mother  of  Washington.' 

And  so  doubtless  they  do  '  sympathize,'  but  how 
(30) 


MRS.  MARGARETTA  HETZEL. 
SECRETARY. 


THE  WOMAN'S  MOVEMENT.  31 

'  encourage  the  movement  to  rescue  from  neglect 
and  oblivion  ?  '  How  bring  about  the  desired  re- 
sult ? 

The  writer  of  this  would  suggest  that  the  Post 
announce  that  every  woman,  as  far  as  able,  shall 
give  one  dollar  to  the  proposed  monnment,  and  that 
THE  WASHINGTON  POST  act  as  Treasurer  for  the 
fund  and  acknowledge  in  its  columns  daily,  any  con- 
tributions thereto  received,  with  the  names  of  the 
donors. 

How  better  can  the  mothers  and  daughters  of 
this  country,  in  this  Centennial  year,  honor  the 
memory  of  our  Washington,  who  said:  'All  that  I 
am  I  owe  to  my  mother,'  than  by  rescuing  that 
mother's  grave  from  oblivion  and  raising  the  mon- 
ument to  her  hallowed  memory?  One  dollar  is 
herewith  enclosed  as  a  beginning  for  the  woman's 
fund.  M.  H. 

Clifton,  Fairfax  county,  Va." 

To  which  the  following  response  was 
promptly  sent : 

"  DEAR  MADAM  :  Your  suggestion  in  regard  to 
raising  money  by  popular  subscription  for  a  Mary 
Washington  Monument  Fund  is  a  good  one,  and  I 
thank  you  for  sending  it  to  me.  Before  commenc- 
ing any  active  work,  the  Post  will  send  a  represent- 
ative to  Fredericksburg  and  ascertain  just  what  is 


32  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

necessary  to  be  done  and  the  amount  of  money  re- 
quired.     ******* 

Your  letter  and  the  mouey  enclosed  ($i)  will  be 
held  until  such  report  is  made. 

Respectfully, 

FRANK  HATTON." 

Upon  reading  this  letter,  Mrs.  Hetzel 
thought  that  she  must  lose  no  time  in  seeing 
the  Editor,  to  thank  him  for  his  ready  response 
and  consult  with  him  in  some  way  to  bring  it 
before  the  people.  She  went  at  once  to  Wash- 
ington, where  he  received  her  with  great  cor- 
diality, saying  however,  that  he  was  about  to 
leave  for  Chicago  and  would  not  return  before 
the  3ist,  when  he  would  be  glad  to  see  Mrs. 
Hetzel  and  talk  over  the  matter. 

On  June  2d,  Mrs.  Hetzel  was  in  Washing- 
ton, spending  a  few  days  with  her  friend  and 
cousin,  Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Waite,  the  widow  of 
the  Chief  Justice.  She  called  at  the  office  of 
the  Post  and  asked  for  Mr.  Hatton.  She  was 
told  that  Mr.  Hatton  had  not  returned  from 
the  West,  though  he  had  been  expected  the 
day  before.  There  seemed  to  be  great  anx- 
iety among  the  gentlemen  at  the  office,  and 
Mrs.  Hetzel  surmised  that  Mr.  Hatton  was 


THE    WOMAN  S    MOVEMENT.  33 

detained  by  the  flood  at  Johnstown.  She  was 
herself  unable  to  return  to  Virginia,  as  the 
floods  had  made  the  railroads  impassable. 
All  travel  was  suspended. 

Storm-bound  as  she  was,  Mrs.  Hetzel  told 
her  hostess  of  her  suggestion  to  the  Wash- 
ington Post  to  solicit  small  contributions  from 
the  women  of  the  United  States  for  a  monu- 
ment to  the  mother  of  Washington.  Mrs. 
Waite  warmly  favored  the  idea  as  a  good 
method  of  bringing  it  before  the  public,  but 
she  added;  "It  cannot  be  built  that  way;  a 
few  thousand  dollars  might  be  raised  no  doubt, 
but  never  a  sum  sufficient  for  that  purpose. 
That  can  be  done  only  by  an  organized  move- 
ment; an  association  with  agents  in  all  the 
States."  This  idea  was  discussed  with  other 
ladies,  among  whom  were  Mrs.  Orange  Ferris 
and  Miss  Louise  Swan ;  the  plan  was  enlarged 
upon  and  adopted,  and  while  the  Johnstown 
flood  still  raged  the  National  Mary  Washing- 
ton Association  was  organized.  Mrs.  Waite 
was  elected  President,  and  Mrs.  Hetzel,  Sec- 
retary. Both  ladies  with  characteristic  mod- 
esty objected  to  taking  these  offices  on  the 
ground  of  their  advancing  years  and  failing 
3 


34  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

health,  but  the  other  ladies  present  insisted 
that  no  others  could  so  well  fulfill  the  duties, 
and  they  consented  to  act  as  President  and 
Secretary  protem. 

When  Mr.  Hatton  returned  from  Johnstown 
where  he  had  been  detained  by  the  flood,  and 
whence  he  wrote  one  of  the  most  graphic  and 
thrilling  descriptions  of  that  terrible  disaster 
ever  published,  he  was  informed  by  Mrs. 
Hetzel  of  the  organization  of  the  Mary  Wash- 
ington Association.  He  was  much  pleased, 
but  he  thought  it  best  to  solicit  no  funds  at 
that  time,  as  the  Johnstown  disaster  was  en- 
grossing public  attention  and  sympathy ; 
absorbing  the  funds  of  the  patriotic  and 
humane  to  the  exclusion  of  everything  else. 

Before  leaving  Washington,  Mrs.  Hetzel 
told  an  old  friend,  a  leading  member  of  the 
District  bar,  of  the  Mary  Washington  Asso- 
ciation. He  took  a  great  interest  in  the  sub- 
ject and  offered  to  draw  up  the  Act  of  Incor- 
poration and  By-Laws;  "If  you  will  give  me 
time,  for  I  am  very  busy  at  present,"  and  the 
Secretary  returned  to  her  Virginia  home  and 
went  to  work  to  enlist  Vice  Presidents  for  the 
forty-five  States,  as  Mr.  Blair  said:  "To  write 


'THE  WOMAN  s  MOVEMENT.  35 

the  hundreds  and  thousands  of  letters  for  the 
object  so  dear  to  her."  In  spite  of  many  dis- 
couragements, refusals,  reproaches  and  unan- 
swered letters,  she  secured  several  Vice 
Presidents  ready  for  work  before  the  autumn. 

Meantime  attempts  were  made  in  other 
quarters.  The  Old  South  Meeting  House  in 
Boston,  while  preparing  to  celebrate  the  Cen- 
tennial of  General  Washington's  visit  to  that 
historic  place  of  worship,  wished  to  inaugurate 
a  movement  to  complete  the  monument  to 
the  Mother  of  Washington  at  that  celebration. 
A  committee  was  appointed  to  inquire  into 
the  actual  condition  of  the  monument  and 
Mayor  Rowe  of  Fredericksburg  sent  them  all 
the  facts.  The  meeting  was  held  on  October 
26th  and  money  collected,  but  when  they 
found  how  far  Congress  had  already  gone  in 
the  matter  they  decided  to  postpone  any 
further  action.  The  amount  collected  was 
afterwards  sent  to  the  National  Mary  Wash- 
ington Memorial  Association. 

Mr.  C.  Burrows  Greene,  a  broker  of  New 
York  City  and  a  grandson  of  Silas  Burrows, 
the  generous  donor  of  the  old  monument,  was 
very  anxious  to  have  it  restored.  With  the 


36  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

co-operation  of  another  eminent  New  Yorker 
he  was  ready  to  make  a  movement  for  that 
object,  but  when  they  learned  that  Congress 
was  attempting  the  work  they  withdrew, 
thinking  it  would  be  a  national  disgrace  for 
the  government  not  to  complete  the  unfinished 
work. 

Among  the  many  discouraging  responses 
received  by  Mrs.  Hetzel  was  a  letter  from  the 
daughter  of  a  Senator,  declining  the  position 
of  Vice-President  on  the  ground  that  the 
money  was  going  to  be  appropriated  by  Con- 
gress for  the  purpose,  adding  that  though 
the  bill  had  failed  in  1889  it  would  certainly 
pass  in  1890.  The  Secretary  said  when  she 
read  this  letter :  "If  Congress  should  pass 
the  bill  for  the  monument,  we  still  can  erect 
a  memorial  to  Mary  Washington  from  the 
Women  of  the  United  States,"  consequently 
the  title  given  to  the  Society  was  the  National 
Mary  Washington  Memorial  Association. 

The  ladies  of  Fredericksburg,  alike  deter- 
mined to  wait  no  longer  on  the  dilatory  action 
of  Congress,  held  a  meeting  at  a  private 
residence  on  October  i3th  and  founded  the 
Fredericksburg  Mary  Washington  Monument 


THE    WOMAN  S    MOVEMENT.  37 

Association.  On  October  i5th,  an  eloquent 
appeal  was  written  by  Mrs.  Frances  B.  Gool- 
rick  and  published  in  the  Washington  Post  of 
October  3ist  Her  plan  proposed  the  same 
method  of  organization  outlined  by  Mrs. 
Waite  in  June  and  already  put  in  operation 
by  Mrs.  Hetzel  during  the  summer. 

AN  APPEAL  IN  BEHALF  OF  THE  MARY 
WASHINGTON  MONUMENT. 

"  Amidst  great  pomp  and  ceremony  the  corner- 
stone of  the  monument  to  the  memory  of  Mary 
Washington,  the  mother  of  "  the  father  of  this  Re- 
public," was  laid  in  1833.  The  erection  of  the 
monument  over  the  grave  of  this  most  illustrious  of 
American  women  was  voluntarily  undertaken  by  a 
philanthropic  and  patriotic  citizen,  Silas  Burrows  of 
New  York.  Mr.  Burrows  died  before  its  comple- 
tion. It  is  now  in  an  unfinished  and  dilapidated 
condition. 

"  Congress  has  been  again  and  again  appealed  to 
and  importuned.  Favourable  legislation  has  been 
promised,  but  this  incomplete  monument  crumbles 
and  decays.  Shall  the  memory  of  the  mother  of 
the  great  Washington  longer  be  neglected?  In 
every  State  of  this  Union  monuments  mark  with 
emphasis  the  veneration  with  which  George  Wash- 
ington is  held  by  a  graetful  republic,  and  at  the 


38  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Capitol  of  the  Nation  there  is  one  that  towers  above 
all  the  rest,  but  nowhere  is  there  recognition  made 
of  the  mother.  Her  very  grave  at  this  place  is 
marked  only  by  an  unsightly  pile  of  marble.  Shall 
this  neglect  continue? 

"  Mrs.  Washington  was  an  uncommon  woman. 
It  is  recorded  of  her  that  '  she  was  of  strong  will, 
splendid  judgment,  untiring  energy  and  without 
pretension,'  and  from  these  elements  she  molded 
her  great  son,  taught  him  to  become  great,  equipped 
him  with  attributes  essential  to  greatness.  She 
lived  during  the  Revolutionary  War  in  Fredericks- 
burg,  died  and  was  buried  here  at  the  spot  she  had 
herself  selected  for  that  purpose.  Shall  the  grave 
of  Mary  Washington  be  allowed  to  remain  longer 
in  a  condition  which  is  the  reminder  of  forgetful- 
ness,  rather  than  the  gratitude  of  our  people?  Re- 
member that  the  grave  of  Washington  himself  is 
held  as  a  very  Mecca,  to  which  all  liberty-loving 
people  can  make  their  pilgrimage,  the  work  of  the 
faithful  and  devoted  women  of  this  land  ?  And  it  is 
proposed  that  an  organization  shall  at  once  be 
formed,  having  for  its  object  the  erection  of  a  mon- 
ument over  the  grave  of  George  Washington's 
mother  at  this  place*. 

"  Will  the  women  of  this  Republic  respond  to 
this  appeal  ?  Are  they  not  willing  to  undertake 
this  patriotic  work  ? 

"  To  the  end  that  steps  may  be  immediately  taken, 


THE    WOMAN  S    MOVEMENT.  39 

it  is  intended  to  obtain  a  charter  of  incorporation  of 
the  Mary  Washington  Memorial  Association,  to 
have  a  president,  one  vice-president  in  each  State, 
and  other  usual  and  necessary  officers,  all  women. 
It  is  also  suggested  that  the  ladies  of  America  on 
February  22,  1890,  shall  in  every  State  make  some 
organized  effort  to  raise  the  necessary  funds.  The 
writer  of  this  requests  the  paper  to  give  circulation 
to  this  appeal,  and  will  be  glad  to  hear  from  any 
ladies  who  desire  to  take  an  active  interest  in  this 
patriotic  purpose. 

MRS.  JOHN  T.  GOOLRICK, 
Fredericksburg,  Va.,  Oct.  15,  1889." 

This  appeal  was  published  by  the  Wash- 
ington Post  on  October  3ist.  The  same 
issue  had  a  very  eloquent  editorial  on  the 
subject.  Mr.  Hatton  then  opened  the  col- 
umns of  the  Post  to  subscriptions  and  con- 
tributions; a  Mary  Washington  column  in 
each  number  was  devoted  to  the  subject 
with  editorial  and  contributed  matter  and 
accounts  of  money  contributed,  beginning 
with  $200  from  the  Washington  Post,  followed 
by  the  dollar  sent  by  Mrs.  Hetzel  in  May; 
$10  from  Mrs.  Clarkson  of  Iowa,  a  donation 
from  Mrs.  S.  V.  White  of  Brooklyn  and  con- 
tributions from  many  sources ;  collections 


4O  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

were  made  by  friends  in  the  Government 
offices,  and  in  the  private  schools,  notably  by 
Miss  Ellis  of  the  McDonald  Ellis  School,  who 
so  inspired  her  pupils  that  they  sent  a  beautiful 
contribution.  The  children  individually  re- 
sponded, even  the  newsboys  adding  their 
mites.  For  four  months  the  Mary  Washing- 
ton column  headed  with  her  portait  appeared 
in  the  post,  and  upwards  of  a  thousand 
dollars  were  collected  in  this  manner  through 
Mr.  Hatton's  energy  and  generosity. 

On  November  8th,  the  Fredericksburg 
Mary  Washington  Monument  Association  re- 
ceived its  charter.  Mrs.  James  Power  Smith 
was  elected  President  and  Mrs.  Goolrick  first 
Vice  President.  On  November  25th,  a  beau- 
tiful appeal  was  issued  by  that  Association 
from  the  pen  of  Rev.  James  Power  Smith. 

The  National  Association  did  not  receive 
its  charter  until  February  22d,  1890,  partly 
because  they  wished  to  have  the  work  well 
started,  enough  Vice  Presidents  secured  from 
the  States  to  ensure  success,  and  also  because 
they  felt  that  the  22d  of  February  was  the 
best  date  for  the  charter. 

A  meeting  of  the  National  Association  was 


THE    WOMAN  S    MOVEMENT.  41 

held  in  December  at  the  residence  of  Mrs. 
Admiral  Lee,  the  Second  Vice  President. 
The  meeting  was  presided  over  by  the  Presi- 
dent, Mrs.  Waite.  The  members  present 
were,  the  two  Vice  Presidents,  Mrs.  Emory 
and  Mrs.  Lee,  Mrs.  Hetzel,  the  Secretary, 
Mrs.  Col.  Royall  of  the  Executive  Committee 
and  three  of  the  Vice  Presidents  of  the  States  : 
Mrs.  Stewart  of  Nevada,  Mrs.  Vance  of  North 
Carolina  and  Mrs.  Clifton  R.  Breckenridge, 
of  Arkansas. 

The  Secretary  announced  the  acceptance 
of  several  other  Vice  Presidents,  among  them 
Mrs.  B.  S.  Story  of  Louisiana,  Mrs.  Governor 
Dillingham  of  Vermont,  Mrs.  Hearst,  of  Cal- 
ifornia, Mrs.  Lyman  Trumbull  of  Illinois,  and 
Mrs.  Grover  Cleveland  of  New  York  City. 
The  next  meeting  was  held  in  January,  at  the 
residence  of  Mrs.  Waite,  and  Mrs.  Hetzel  was 
instructed  to  go  to  Fredericksburgto  examine 
the  old  monument,  ascertain  who  held  the  title 
and  obtain  an  option  with  a  view  to  purchase. 

On  January  i5th,  1890,  Mrs.  Hetzel  went 
to  Fredericksburg  with  W.  D.  Davidge,  Jr. 
She  thus  describes  the  monument; 

"  We  were  met  on  arriving,  by  Mrs.  Goolrick  and 


42  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

with  her  drove  immediately  to  the  monument;  found 
it  the  ruined  structure  now  so  familiar  to  us — by  the 
wood-cuts  freely  published — standing  ten  feet  square 
at  its  base,  sixteen  in  height,  on  a  commanding  em- 
inence in  a  field  of  stunted  briars;  a  melancholy 
spectacle,  wholly  without  protection,  the  decayed, 
half  fallen  'worm  fence'  near  affording  none.  The 
design  was  an  elaborate  one,  but  defaced  by  time, 
riddled  by  bullets,  chipped  by  vandals,  weather 
beaten,  broken  and  incomplete.  What  is  left  of  the 
monument  appeals  overwhelmingly  to  every  senti- 
ment of  patriotism." 

Thence  they  drove  to  the  Court  House  to 
see  the  will  of  the  noble  mother ;  then  called 
upon  the  Judge  of  the  highest  Court  of  the 
district,  to  whom  Mrs.  Hetzel  presented  her 
credentials  and  instructions.  He  gave  assur- 
ance that  a  perfect  legal  title  could  be  given 
to  the  land,  although  that  the  situation  was 
such — a  public  avenue  having  been  opened 
by  the  city  out  to,  and  including  the  monu- 
ment— that  no  one  could  then  give  an  option 
on  it.  The  legal  adviser  of  the  Fredericks- 
burg  Association  being  called  upon,  gave  the 
same  assurance  and  information.  He  prom- 
ised to  prepare  an  abstract  of  title  and  forward 
it  to  Washington  immediately,  and  also  to  see 


THE    WOMAN  S    MOVEMENT.  43 

the  Mayor  of  the  city — who  was  out  of  town 
— on  his  return,  and  take  steps  to  have  the 
desire  of  the  National  Association  to  purchase 
the  property  laid  before  the  city  government. 
Mrs.  Hetzel,  grateful  for  the  kind  reception 
and  facilities  afforded  her,  returned  to  Wash- 
ington to  present  her  report.  A  meeting  was 
called  for  January  25th  to  receive  the  report; 
the  President  of  the  Fredericksburg  Associa- 
tion and  the  other  officers  were  invited  to 
attend. 

The  meeting  was  held  at  the  residence  of 
Mrs.  Lee,  1625  Pennsylvania  Avenue.  Mrs. 
Lee  opened  the  meeting  and  the  Secretary 
read  the  report  of  her  mission  to  Fredericks- 
burg  ;  this  report,  was  being  discussed  when 
Mrs.  James  Power  Smith,  the  President  of  the 
Fredericksburg  Association,  having  just  ar- 
rived in  Washington,  entered  and  was  intro- 
duced by  Mrs.  Lee  and  Mrs.  Hetzel. 

After  being  warmly  welcomed,  Mrs.  Smith 
produced  a  deed  from  the  Mayor  of  Freder- 
icksburg of  the  monnment  lot  and  the  land 
upon  which  it  stood,  to  the  Fredericksburg 
Mary  Washington  Association,  also  the  deed 
of  the  adjoining  lot  from  G.  W.  Shepherd,  to 


44  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

the    same    Society,    both   executed   the   day 
previous. 

Objections  were  made  by  the  Vice  Presi- 
dents of  States,  and  others  present,  to  the 
National  Association  undertaking  to  erect  a 
monument  upon  land  which  did  not  belong  to 
them  and  which  they  could  not  control.  Mrs. 
Stewart — Mrs.  Clifton  R.  Brecken ridge  and 
Mrs.  Vance,  all  saying  that  they  could  make 
no  collections  in  their  States  for  any  but  a 
National  object.  A  proposition  was  made 
that  the  land  should  be  conveyed  to  the 
National  Association  on  conditions.  Mrs. 
Smith  had  no  authority  to  accept  without  con- 
sultation, and  the  meeting  adjourned. 


CHAPTER  VI. 

THE    INCORPORATION. 

ON  February  22nd,  1890,  the  National  Mary 
Washington  Memorial  Association  received 
its  charter.  An  article  in  the  Washington 
Post  thus  describes  the  meeting : 

"  Washington's  Birthday  was  celebrated  by  an 
important  meeting  of  that  band  of  patriotic  women 
who,  about  six  months  ago,  organized  themselves 
into  an  association  for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a 
monument  to  Washington's  mother,  and  maintain- 
ing and  preserving  the  same  in  good  order.  The 
meeting  was  presided  over  by  the  President  of  the 
Association,  Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Waite,  the  widow  of 
the  late  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States,  and  Mrs. 
Margaret  Hetzel  of  Virginia  acted  as  Secretary. 

"The  meeting  was  for  the  purpose  of  formally 
adopting  the  charter  prepared  by  Walter  D.  Davidge 
of  this  city,  making  the  association  a  perpetual  one, 
and  availing  itself  of  the  privileges  which  the  gen- 
eral incorporation  laws  of  the  District  of  Columbia 
give. 

"  The  certificate  of  incorporation  was  approved, 
executed  and  acknowledged  by  the  Executive  Com- 
(45)  ' 


46  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

mittee  of  the  old  Association  and  given  the  name  of 
the  corporation  as  :  '  The  National  Mary  Washing- 
ton Memorial  Association.'  It  states  that  the  cor- 
poration is  organized  for  the  term  of  1000  years 
from  February  22nd,  1890,  and  that  the  particular 
objects  of  the  society  are  the  erection  of  a  suitable 
monument  to  Mary,  the  Mother  of  Washington,  in- 
cluding the  acquisition  of  such  ground  as  may  be 
proper  and  the  improvement  thereof,  and  the  main- 
tainenance  and  preservation  in  good  order  of  said 
monument  with  the  improvements;  and  that  the 
number  of  managers  for  the  first  year  is  ten. 

"  The  names  of  the  Executive  Committee  who 
executed  the  charter  are:  Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Waite, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Blair  Lee,  Mrs.  Matilda  W.  Emory, 
Mrs.  Margaretta  Hetzel  and  Miss  Maude  Lee 
Davidge. 

"  The  incorporators  also  adopted  a  device  for  a 
seal,  containing  in  the  center  the  head  of  Mary 
Washington  and  around  the  circle  the  name  of  the 
society  and  the  date  of  organization.  They  also 
adopted  a  membership  badge  of  blue  satin  with  the 
head  of  Mary  Washington  in  silver  and  the  initial 
letters  of  the  society,  N.  M.  W.  M.  A. 

".The  officers  of  the  old  organization  were  elected 
to  the  corresponding  positions  in  the  new  one, 
namely :  Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Waite,  President,  Mrs. 
Margaret  Hetzel,  Secretary,  and  Mr.  E.  Francis 
Riggs,  Treasurer. 


THE    INCORPORATION.  47 

"  By-laws  were  adopted,  and  by  one  of  them  the 
title  to  the  real  estate  of  the  corporation  is  to  be  held 
in  trust  for  its  use  by  a  board  of  trustees,  consisting  o 
the  President  of  the  United  States  for  the  time  be- 
ing, the  Chief  Justice  of  the  United  States  for  the 
time  being  and  the  Governor  of  the  State  of 
Virginia,  for  the  time  being. 

"  A  Board  of  Managers  for  the  first  year  was 
then  elected,  consisting  of  the  five  ladies  of  the 
Executive  Commitee,  thej^President  of  the  Uuited 
States,  [ex-officio],  the  Chief  Justice  of  the  United 
States  [ex-officio],  the  Governor  of  Virginia  [ex- 
officio],  and  Messrs.  E.  Francis  Riggs  and  Blair  Lee. 

"  It  is  designed  to  appoint  a  Vice-President  for 
each  and  every  State,  to  raise  and  take  charge  of 
collections  and  the  enrollment  of  members;  twenty- 
five  of  whom  have  been  already  heard  from  and 
will  accept  the  duty.  Among  them  are  Mrs. 
Grover  Cleveland,  Mrs.  Senator  Blair,  Mrs.  Senator 
McPherson,  Mrs.  Senator  Stewart,  Mrs.  Senator 
Hearst,  Mrs.  Senator  Faulkner  and  Mrs.  Thomas 
F.  Bayard." 

Mrs.  Cleveland,  greatly  to  the  regret  of 
the  Board,  resigned  her  office  of  Vice-Presi- 
dent for  New  York  City  in  the  spring,  and 
Mrs.  Bayard  also  wrote  that  she  was  unable 
to  serve  and  recommended  Mrs.  Senator 
Gray  as  Vice-President  for  Delaware. 


48  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

After  devoting  the  morning  of  February 
22,  1890,  to  the  Act  of  Incorporation,  the 
Board  attended  that  evening  a  beautifnl  re- 
ception, for  the  benefit  of  the  Mary  Washing- 
ton Monument,  given  by  the  Washington 
Press  Association,  in  Miss  Ransom's  Studio, 
which  she  kindly  lent  for  the  occasion.  It 
was  a  brilliant  affair  and  was  of  great  service 
in  calling  attention  to  the  subject 


CHAPTER   VII. 

THE    INCORPORATORS. 

A  SLIGHT  sketch  of  the  women  who  founded 
this  movement  would  not  be  out  of  place  here. 
All  but  one  were  aged  women,  but  with  the 
energy  and  enthusiasm  of  youth  they  aroused 
themselves  to  honor  the  memory  of  one  of 
their  sisterhood. 

Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Waite,  the  President,  was 
a  Miss  Warner  of  Connecticut,  a  descendant 
of  many  historic  families  of  the  old  Connecti- 
cut River  stock ;  both  she  and  her  distin- 
tinguished  husband  being  great-grandchildren 
of  Colonel  Samuel  Selden  of  the  Revolution. 

Her  early  years  were  spent  in  Essex  and 
Lynn,  Conn.  She  married  the  future  Chief 
Justice  whrn  he  was  a  rising  young  lawyer, 
and  went  with  him  to  Ohio,  where  he  soon 
achieved  distinction  in  his  profession.  She 
came  to  Washington  when  her  husband  was 
made  Chief  Justice  and  she  resided  there  until 
her  death  in  1896. 

In  Ohio  as  well  as  in  Washington,  she  de- 
4  (49) 


5O  BUILDING   OF    A    MONUMENT. 

voted  much  of  her  time  to  patriotic  and  char- 
itable work.  She  was  active  in  raising  money 
for  the  Mount  Vernon  Association  in  1860; 
later,  when  in  Washington,  she  was  one  of 
the  managers  of  the  Epiphany  Church  Home 
and  acting  President  of  that  noble  Society, 
known  as  the  Blue  Anchor,  the  Woman's 
Auxiliary  of  the  Life  Saving  Service.  Her 
experience  in  the  Mount  Vernon  Association 
gave  her  the  idea  of  organization,  and  her 
work  in  the  Blue  Anchor  Society  brought  her 
in  correspondence  and  association  with  gifted 
and  philanthropic  women  all  over  the  country, 
from  the  Atlantic  seaboard  to  the  Gulf  and 
the  distant  Pacific. 

When  the  idea  of  the  Woman's  Movement 
to  restore  the  tomb  of  Mary  Washington  was 
first  suggested  to  her,  she  showed  such  knowl- 
edge of  the  best  methods  that  she  was  at  once 
elected  President  pro  tern.,  and  six  months 
after,  when  the  charter  was  issued,  President. 

How  well  she  fulfiled  the  duties  of  her  of- 
fice will  be  told  in  these  pages. 

Mrs.  Matilda  W.  Emory,  long  noted  as  one 
of  the  most  brilliant  and  intellectual  of  the 
leaders  of  Washington  Society,  was  a  daugh- 


THE    INCORPORATORS.  51 

ter  of  Richard  Bache  and  Sophia  Dallas. 
Her  father,  Richard  Bache,  was  the  son  of 
Sally  Franklin  Bache  and  the  grandson  ot 
Benjamin  Franklin ;  her  mother,  Sophia  Dal- 
las, was  the  daughter  of  Alexander  Dallas, 
Cabinet  Minister  under  Jefferson,  and  sister 
of  George  M.  Dallas,  Vice-President,  States- 
man, Diplomatist.  Mrs.  Emory  inherited  the 
strong  mental  and  moral  force  of  the  Franklins 
and  the  Dallases.  The  talent  of  the  Baches 
was  proverbial  in  Washington.  Her  eldest 
brother,  Professor  A.  Dallas  Bache,  was  for 
many  years  Superintendent  nf  the  Coast  Snr- 
vey ;  her  eldest  sister  was  the  wife  of  Robert 
J.  Walker,  lawyer,  statesman,  and  Secretary 
of  the  Treasury;  her  husband,  General  Emory, 
was  an  officer  of  distinction,  as  were  many 
others,  brothers  and  brothers-in-law.  The 
sons  were  all  distinguished  and  the  daughters 
were  the  wives  of  distinguished  men. 

Mrs.  Emory  was  an  active  member  of  St. 
John's  Church  and  one  of  the  Board  of  Man- 
agers of  St.  John's  Orphanage.  Her  clear 
intellect,  ready  wit  and  experience  made  her 
advice  and  counsel  of  the  greatest  value  to 
the  Incorporators  and  Directors. 


52  BUILDING   OF   A    MONUMENT. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Blair  Lee,  the  wife  of 
Admiral  S.  Phillips  Lee,  was  the  daughter  of 
Francis  P.  Blair  and  the  sister  of  Montgomery 
Blair  and  Francis  P.  Blair,  Jr.  She  has  been 
surrounded  all  her  life  by  great  minds.  She 
remembers  General  Jackson  as  the  intimate 
friend  of  her  father,  whose  beautiful  home, 
"Silver  Spring"  near  Washington  was  a 
favorite  .  retreat  and  resting  place  for  the 
statesmen  and  literati.  Mrs.  Lee  served  with 
Mrs.  Dolly  Madison  on  the  Board  of  the 
Washington  City  Orphan  Asylum,  of  which 
institution  she  has  been  President  for  many 
years. 

She  took  hold  of  the  Mary  Washington 
cause  with  great  enthusiasm,  always  ready 
with -assistance  and  advice,  always  eminently 
practical  and  clear  headed.  She  is  now 
President  of  the  Society. 

Miss  Maude  Lee  Davidge  is  the  daughter 
of  one  of  the  most  eloquent  and  noted  mem- 
bers of  the  Washington  Bar,  Mr.  Walter  D. 
Davidge.  Her  mother  was  the  beautiful.  Miss 
Anna  Washington,  a  descendant  of  Colonel 
Bailey  Washington,  the  father  of  the  re- 
nowned Colonel  William  Washington,  the 


THE    INCORPORATORS.  53 

hero  of  the  Cowpens.  She  is  also  a  de- 
scendant of  Richard  Bland  Lee,  the  brother 
of  Light  Horse  Harry  and  a  cousin  of  Richard 
Henry  Lee,  the  Signer,  from  whom  Admiral 
Lee  is  descended. 

Mrs.  Margaretta  Hetzel,  Secretary  of  the 
Association,  was  a  cousin  of  Mrs.  Waite,  the 
President.  She  was  born  on  the  plantation 
of  Teviotdale,  on  the  island  of  St.  Vincent, 
West  Indies,  in  1815.  Her  father,  Captain 
Morrison  Jack,  was  a  West  India  planter  of 
Scottish  family;  he  married  Roxanna  Selden 
of  Lyme,  Connecticut.  Before  her  daughter 
Margaretta  was  a  year  old,  Mrs.  Jack  returned 
with  her  two  little  girls  to  her  old  home  on 
the  Connecticut  River,  on  account  of  the 
troubled  state  of  the  islands.  Captain  Jack 
died  soon  after  and  Margaretta's  early  days 
were  spent  at  the  home  of  her  grandfather, 
Calvin  Selden,  on  the  banks  of  the  Connecti- 
cut. When  still  quite  a  child  she  was  sent  to 
school  at  New  Haven.  She  was  present  at 
a  reception  to  Lafayette  and  always  remem- 
bered how  the  hero  took  her  by  the  hand. 

At  the  age  of  twelve  Margaretta  went  to 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  with  her  uncle  and  adopted 


54  BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 

father,  Judge  Samuel  Lee  Selden.  There 
she  grew  to  womanhood  and  married  Lieu- 
tenant A.  Riviere  Hetzel  of  the  United  States 
Army.  The  early  part  of  her  married  lite 
was  spent  in  Lewes,  Delaware,  where  Lieu- 
tenant Hetzel  was  engaged  in  constructing 
the  Delaware  Breakwater.  In  1836,  Cap- 
tain Hetzel  was  ordered  to  Tennessee  to 
assist  General  Scott  in  enforcing  President 
Jackson's  treaty  with  the  Cherokees.  Mrs. 
Hetzel,  with  her  infant  son,  joined  him  in 
1837,  and  spent  several  months  in  the  Indian 
Country.  In  1838,  Captain  Hetzel  was  ap- 
pointed Assistant  Quartermaster  General  to 
General  Jesup,  the  hero  of  1812.  For  many 
years  she  was  stationed  in  Washington,  D.  C., 
and  there  her  daughters  were  born.  Mrs. 
Hetzel's  reminiscences  of  her  early  days  in 
Washington  were  very  interesting.  She 
would  tell  of  General  Jackson's  parties,  of 
Mr.  Van  Buren's  levees  and  Mr.  Tyler's  re- 
ceptions. She  was  on  the  steamer  Princeton 
when  the  fearful  accident  occured  which 
hurried  so  many  of  the  Nation's  chosen  into 
eternity. 

During   the  Mexican  War  General  Scott 


THE    INCORPORATORS.  55 

appointed  Captain  Hetzel  his  Quartermaster 
General.  He  went  with  the  army  to  Mexico. 
The  Louisville  Journal  thus  tells  of  his  service: 
"  He  organized  the  means  at  Vera  Cruz  which 
enabled  General  Scott  to  achieve  a  series  of 
splendid  victories.  It  was  in  Mexico  that  he 
contracted  the  disease  which  deprived  him  of 
life  and  the  army  of  the  most  valuable  ser- 
vice." He  died  on  July  2oth,  1847,  at  Louis- 
ville, on  his  way  home. 

After  her  husband's  death  Mrs.  Hetzel 
went  with  her  children  to  Judge  Selden's 
home  in  Rochester,  but  after  a  few  years  they 
returned  to  Washington.  In  1852  Mrs. 
Hetzel  was  the  means  of  securing  a  per- 
manent pension  to  the  widows  of  Army 
officers.  Her  kind  friend  Senator  George 
W.  Jones  of  Iowa  sent  her  a  list  of  the  Army 
widows;  Mrs.  Hetzel  wrote  a  letter  to  every 
one,  which  caused  each  widow  to  interest  her 
Representative  in  Congress  and  the  bill  was 
passed,  aided  by  the  active  work  of  General 
Jones,  Hon  John  P.  Hale  and  other  dis- 
tinguished Senators  and  Congressmen. 

It  was  thirty  years  after  that,  that  Mrs. 
Hetzel  saw  the  advertisement  that  impelled 


56  BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 

her  to  propose  that  the  women  of  the  United 
States  should  restore  the  tomb  of  Mary 
Washington  and  to  send  the  dollar  to  Mr. 
Hatton  to  start  the  fund. 


MRS.  M.  V.  TERHUNE. 
(MARION  HARLAND) 


CHAPTER  VIIL 

MARION    HARLAND    AND    THE    HOME-MAKER. 

THE  February  number  of  the  Home-Maker 
for  1890  contains  an  eloquent  appeal  from 
Marion  Harland,  then  editor.  For  more 
than  a  year  she  had  been  striving  to  effect 
some  plan  of  restoration  of  the  Monument. 
While  visiting  Fredericksburg  in  the  autumn 
of  1887  she  had  been  distressed  and  indig- 
nant at  the  condition  of  the  old  monument, 
which  she  thus  describes: 

"  To-day  the  tourist  to  the  battle  fields  of  Freder- 
icksburg strayed  upon  a  neglected  enclosure,  without 
the  gray  walls  of  which  is  the  unfinished  memorial 
sketched  for  this  paper.  Cattle  graze  around  the 
base  :  it  is  discolored  by  time  and  weather;  the 
relic-hunter's  hammer  has  been  busy  with  the 
chiseled  edges ;  the  stately  shaft  that  should  bear 
aloft  the  bust  of  the  sleeper's  august  son  and  the 
national  emblem,  lies  prone  and  half  buried  in  the 
earth.  *  *  *  * 

"  The  sun  shines  upon  no  sadder  ruin  in  the 
length  and  breadth  of  our  land ;  winter  snows  can- 
(57) 


58  BUILDING   OF    A    MONUMENT. 

not  cloak  this  disgrace  to  our  nation,  the  ghastly 
satire  upon  the  ingratitude  of  republics." 

In  October  1889,  in  anticipation  of  this  ap- 
peal, the  Home- Maker  published  a  biograph- 
ical sketch  of  Mary,  the  mother  of  Washing- 
ton, by  the  Reverned  James  Smith  Power  of 
Fredericksburg,  Virginia. 

Books  were  opened  at  the  office  of  the 
Home-Maker  for  the  registration  of  contribu- 
tions to  the  cause.  For  six  months  after  date, 
seventy-five  cents  out  of  every  annual  sub- 
scription of  Two  Dollars  to  the  Home-Maker, 
accompanied  by  the  words  "  For  Mary  Wash- 
ington Monument"  were  pledged  to  go 
directly  to 'the  object. 

Mrs.  Terhune  quoted  Dr.  Smith  in  saying: 
"  We  will  take  up  the  scattered,  moss  covered 
stones  that  lie  around  the  broken  column, 
and  build  some  modest,  yet  enduring  memo- 
rial on  the  banks  of  her  beloved  Rappa- 
hannock,  to  tell  of  a  nation's  gratitude  and 
to  perpetuate  the  virtue  of  Mary,  the  mother 
of  Washington." 

In  March  1890,  Mr.  Jack  and  Mr.  Wood- 
ard,  two  Western  members  of  the  Grand 
Army  of  the  Republic,  wrote  the  Fredericks- 


THE  HOME-MAKER.  59 

burg  Association  proposing  to  furnish  a  stone 
for  the  base  of  the  monument, — a  solid  base, 
ten  feet  square,  with  a  shaft  fifteen  hands 
high,  the  completed  monument  to  cost  $1000. 

Mrs.  James  Power  Smith,  then  President 
of  the  Fredericksburg  Association,  favored 
this  proposition  because  of  the  solid  character 
of  the  design,  saying  that  "the  old  monu- 
ment was  composed  of  too  many  small  stones 
which  had  led  largely  to  its  present  condition." 

The  little  monument  was  opposed  by 
Mayor  Rowe  and  was  finally  declined.  The 
Fredericksburg  Free  Lance  sustained  the 
Mayor  in  an  editorial  saying  that  the  Nation 
should  be  represented  in  the  fund  appiied. 
an  urged  their  Representatives  to  induce 
Congress  to  make  a  sufficient  appropriation. 

In  April  of  the  same  year,  a  bazaar  was 
given  by  the  ladies  of  the  Fredericksburg 
Monument  Association.  A  series  of  enter- 
tainments, a  little  play,  a  minuet,  netted  $450, 
which  enabled  the  Association  to  purchase 
additional  land  extending  the  proposed  park 
to  five  acres. 


CHAPTER  IX. 

THE    BOARD    OF    DIRECTORS. 

The  first  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors 
of  the  National  Mary  Washington  Memorial 
Association,  after  the  Incorporation,  was  held 
in  the  Green  Room  of  the  White  House, 
May  1 3th,  1891,  the  anniversary  of  the  settle- 
ment of  Jamestown — though  the  members 
thought  little  of  Jamestown,  or  of  anything 
else  but  Mary  Washington  and  her  proposed 
monument. 

The  Board  was  cordially  welcomed  by  Mrs. 
Harrison,  who  expressed  great  interest  in  the 
object.  Mrs.  Waite,  Mrs.  Emory,  Mrs. 
Hetzel  and  Miss  Davidge,  with  Messrs. 
Reginald  Fendall  and  Blair  Lee,  represented 
the  Board  of  Directors.  The  Vice- Presi- 
dents of  States  present  were  the  wives  of 
Senators  Blair,  Vance,  Cockrell,  Dolph  and 
Squire ;  Mrs.  Clifton  R.  Breckenridge  of 
Arkansas,  Mrs.  Reyburn  of  Pennsylvania, 
Mrs.  Hernando  D.  Money  of  Mississippi, 
Mrs.  Mary  Washington  Keyser  of  Mary- 
(60) 


THE    BOARD    OF    DIRECTORS.  6 1 

land  and  Miss  Pendleton  of  Philadelphia. 
A  few  minutes  after  four,  President  Harri- 
son called  the  meeting  to  order  saying:  "I 
desire  to  express  the  interest  I  feel  in  the 
work  and  my  willingness  to  co-operate  in 
every  way  possible.  I  have  no  doubt  you 
will  all  prove  efficient  in  carrying  out  the 
work." 

Owing  to  press  of  business  the  President 
was  compelled  to  leave  the  meeting  before 
the  close  and  Chief  Justice  Fuller  was  called 
to  the  chair. 

Mr.  Reginald  Fendall  presented  to  the 
meeting  the  certificate  of  Incorporation  and 
the  by-laws  of  the  association.  The  election 
of  three  officers,  a  Vice-President,  a  Secretary, 
and  a  Treasurer  was  then  held  and  resulted 
in  the  election  of  Mrs.  Waite  as  Vice-Presi- 
dent, of  Mrs.  Hetzel  as  Secretary  and  of  Mr. 
E.  Francis  Riggs  as  Treasurer. 

Mrs.  Waite  read  a  letter  which  she  had 
received  from  Mrs.  James  Power  Smith, 
the  President  of  the  Frederick sburg  Mary 
Washington  association,  congratulating  the 
National  association  on  the  good  work  it 
was  doing.  The  presiding  officer,  Chief 


62  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Justice  Fuller,  appointed  Mr.  Reginald  Fen- 
dall,  Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Waite  and  Mrs.  Henry 
S.  Blair  a  committee  to  confer  with  the 
Fredericksburg  Association  and  to  report  at 
the  next  meeting  of  the  Board. 

On  June  lyth  Mrs.  James  Power  Smith, 
Mrs.  V.  M.  Fleming,  Mrs.  Thompson  and 
Hon.  William  A.  Little  Jr.,  of  Fredericksburg 
came  to  Washington  to  confer  with  the  Board. 

The  meeting  was  held  at  the  house  of 
Mrs.  Emory.  Neither  Mrs.  Waite  nor  Mrs. 
Hetzel  was  present ;  Mrs.  Waite  having 
left  Washington  for  a  European  tour  and 
Mrs.  Hetzel  being  dangerously  ill  at  her 
home  in  Virginia. 

Mrs.  Emory,  always  a  charming  hostess, 
welcomed  the  Fredericksburg  delegation, 
assisted  by  Mrs.  Blair,  Mrs.  Norton,  Miss 
Davidge  and  Mr.  Blair  Lee. 

The  Fredericksburg  Committee  submitted  a 
proposition  to  convey  the  monument  and  land 
to  the  National  Association  on  condition  that 
a  suitable  monument  should  be  built  thereon, 
to  begin  not  later  than  February  22nd,  1894. 

The  meeting  adjourned,  the  conditions  to 
be  laid  before  the  National  Association. 


CHAPTER  X. 

FIRST   APPEAL    OF   THE    NATIONAL    ASSOCIATION. 

THE  Secretary  of  the  National  Mary  Wash- 
ington Memorial  Association  was  confined  to 
her  bed  with  a  severe  and  dangerous  illness 
during  the  months  of  June  and  July  1890. 
As  soon  as  she  was  able  to  sit  up  and  the 
trained  nurse  and  physician  had  taken  leave, 
she  prepared  to  issue  an  appeal  to  the 
women  of  the  United  States.  She  was 
assisted  in  writing  it  by  Mrs.  Claudia  B. 
Money,  Vice-President  for  Mississippi,  wife 
of  Hon.  Hernando  D.  Money,  then  Repre- 
sentative, now  United  States  Senator. 

It  was  not  until  August  that  Mrs.  Hetzel 
was  well  enough  to  take  the  appeal  to  Wash- 
ington to  receive  the  approval  of  the  Board 
and  place  it  in  the  hands  of  the  printer.  One 
member  objected  to  issuing  it  at  that  time 
because  a  deed  had  not  been  granted  to  the 
National  Association  ;  Mrs.  Hetzel  considered 
the  proposition  of  the  Fredericksburg  Associ- 
ation a  sufficient  guarantee;  the  deed  could 
(63) 


,    64  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

not  be  conveyed  at  the  time,  as  Mrs.  Waite 
was  absent  in  Europe,  and  Mrs.  Hetzel 
thought  that  no  time  should  be  lost  in  bring- 
ing the  matter  before  the  country.  The 
appeal  was  approved  by  a  majority  of  the 
Board.  Mrs.  Lee  lett  her  country  home, 
Silver  Spring;  and  met  the  other  members  in 
Washington.  Fifty  thousand  copies  were 
printed  and  several  thousand  were  issued  in 
September. 

To  THE  WOMEN  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  THIS 
APPEAL  is  ADDRESSED. 

JUNE,  1890. 

The  grave  of  MARY,  the  MOTHER  OF  WASHING- 
TON, lies  neglected  and  desolate ;  a  monument  begun 
there,  but  never  completed,  stands  blackened  and 
dilapidated.  We  would  rescue  from  totnl  oblivion 
the  name  of  a  woman  whose  memory  should  be  hal- 
lowed in  every  American  home,  and  pay  a  national 
tribute  to  her  noble  motherhaod  by  erecting  a  mon- 
ument in  her  honor. 

This  is  a  "woman's  movement,"  says  the  first  cir- 
cular issued,  "  national  in  its  character,  for  raising 
the  needed  sum  by  such  small  contributions  that  no 
woman  in  the  land  need  be  deprived  of  the  privilege 
of  aiding  a  cause  that  must  appeal  to  the  heart  of 
every  mother  and  daughter  in  America." 


THE    FIRST   APPEAL.  65 

This  will  be  the  first  monument  ever  erected  by 
women  to  a  woman.  Mary  Washington  was  of  a 
heroic  nature,  patriotic  soul,  tender  spirit,  and  un- 
common mental  gifts.  She  was  the  finest  type  of 
the  brave  and  devoted  women  who  ruled  the  house- 
holds of  the  Colonies  in  those  days  when  our  free- 
dom trembled  in  the  balance.  Do  we  not  stand 
reproached  before  the  world  ?  Should  we  not  make 
ample  atonement  for  the  neglect  under  which  has 
lain  for  long  years  the  memory  of  the  mother  of  the 
greatest  hero  and  patriot  "  that  adorns  the  annals  of 
history  ?"  It  is  a  sad  spot,  that  desolated  grave  where 
has  rested  for  a  hundred  years,  amid  tangled  masses 
of  humble  weeds  and  grass,  the  noble  woman  so 
beloved  and  revered  by  her  noble  son,  who  proudly 
declared,  "  I  attribute  my  success  in  life  to  the 
moral,  intellectual,  and  physical  education  which  I 
received  from  my  mother."  Should  not  this  touch 
the  hearts  of  our  women  and  make  them  cling 
tenderly  to  her  memory  as  a  proud  heritage  ?  A 
precious  memorial  will  be  the  monument  they  shall 
place  above  her  sacred  dust,  and  consecrated  the 
ground  where  she  reposes. 

The  women  of  America  should  be  "heart-moved 
as  by  a  voice  of  a  trumphet"  when  this  appeal 
comes  to  them.  To  her  we  are  indebted  that 
George  Washington  became  a  patriotic  American 
citizen.  To  her  is  due  that  grand  character,  cast  in 
such  heroic  mould,  that  union  of  gigantic  energy, 
5 


66  BUILDING   OF   A    MONUMENT. 

indomitable  resolution,  and  dauntless  courage  which 
marked  him  the  first  of  all  his  countrymen.  It 
was  she  who  kindled  noble  principles  and  purposes 
in  his  soul.  At  her  side  his  genius  budded  and 
expanded.  But  for  her  wisdom  and  spirit  he 
would  have  passed  his  youth  upon  the  deck  of  a 
British  man-of-war,  trained  for  English  service,  and 
the  sword  which  cleft  the  way  to  our  victory  would 
have  been  drawn  for  our  oppressor. 

Women  are  giving  their  time  and  energies  to 
building  monuments  to  men.  Their  success  is 
phenomenal.  But  the  time  has  come  when  there 
must  be  commemorated  in  enduring  marble  the 
virtues  of  a  woman,  who  shall  be  always  to  them 
the  paragon  of  womanly  excellence.  Nothing  is 
left  undone  to  raise  to  a  higher  plane  in  this  and 
foreign  countries  the  memory  of  George  Washing- 
ton ;  but  for  years  this  beloved  and  faithful-hearted 
mother,  whose  protest  against  the  plans  of  others 
to  give  him  to  England  made  him  OURS  forever, 
has  but  a  dilapidated  ruin  to  mark  her  grave. 

Behind  the  gleaming  marble  the  artist  stands  pro- 
claiming his  immortal  workmanship.  What  sculp- 
tor can  point  to  that  of  Mary  Washington  ?  It  was 
she  who  moulded  into  grand  symmetrical  proportions 
this  character  so  nearly  perfect — it  was  she  who 
gave  him  to  his  country. 

WOMEN  OF  AMERICA,  marshal  your  forces  !  Be- 
gin the  work  with  energies  quickened  by  the 
thought  that  she  is  YOURS  ! 


THE    FIRST   APPEAL.  67 

Let  every  one  of  her  sex,  whatever  her  condition, 
come  with  her  contribution.  She  who  commands 
millions,  will  she  not  give  thousands?  She  who  by 
arduous  daily  toil  earns  a  pittance,  may  she  not 
cheerfully  add  her  mite. 

We  would  not  that  this  monument  be  built  by  a 
few  generous  men  and  women  alone ;  we  want  the 
pennies  of  the  poor  as  well  as  the  dollars  of  the  rich. 
We  would  have  every  woman  to  share  in  the  proud 
privilege  of  associating  herself  by  her  contribution 
in  the  work  of  erecting  an  imperishable  memorial 
to  that  epitome  of  womanly  virtues  and  graces — 
Mary,  the  mother  of  our  beloved  Washington. 

This  APPEAL  comes  to  you  from  THE  NATIONAL 
MARY  WASHINGTON  MEMORIAL  ASSOCIATION,  char- 
tered February  22,  1890,  in  the  District  of  Colum- 
bia. 

TRUSTEES. 

Hon.  BENJAMIN  HARRISON, 

President  of  the  United  States  (Ex-officid). 
Hon.  MELVILLE  W.  FULLER, 

Chief-Justice  of  the  United  States  (Ex  officio}. 
Hon.  PHILIP  W.  McKiNNEY, 

Governor  of  Virginia  (Ex-officio). 

LADY  MANAGERS, 
(and  in  corporators). 

PRESIDENT. 
Mrs.  AMELIA  C.  WAITE. 

FIRST  VICE-PRESIDENT. 

Mrs.  MATILDA  W.  EMORY. 


68  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

SECOND  VICE-PRESIDENT. 
Mrs.  ELIZABETH  BLAIR  LEE. 

SECRETARY. 

Mrs.  MARGARET  HETZEL. 
Miss  MAUD  LEE  DAVIDGE. 

DIRECTORS, 

THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  (Ex-officio). 
THE  CHIEF-JUSTICE  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  (Ex-officio}. 
THE  GOVERNOR  OF  THE  STATE  OF  VIRGINIA  (Ex-offido). 

VICE-PRESIDENT. 
Mrs.  AMELIA  C.  WATTE, 

1616  Rhode  Island  Avenue,  Washington. 
SECRETARY. 
Mrs.  MARGARET  HETZEL, 

Clifton  Station,  Va. 
TREASURER. 

E.  FRANCIS  RIGGS, 

Riggs'  Bank,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mrs.  MATILDA  W.  EMORY, 

1718  H  Street,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mrs.  ELIZABETH  BLAIR  LEE, 

1653  Pennsylvania  Ave.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Miss  MAUD  LEE  DAVIDGE, 

1624  H  Street,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mr.  REGINALD  FENDALL, 

344  D  Street,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mr.  BLAIR  LEE, 

344  D  Street,  Washington,  D.  C. 

A  Vice- President  to  be  appointed  in  each  State, 
whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  organize  branch  associa- 
tions in  her  State,  and  adopt  such  measures  as  she 
may  deem  expedient  to  procure  funds  for  the  erec- 
tion of  this  monument,  and  for  its  future  care  and 
preservation ;  also  to  secure  the  largest  enrollment 
of  members  possible  and  forward  the  rolls  of  names 


THE    FIRST    APPEAL.  69 

with  the*  sums  contributed  to  the  Secretary  of  the 
National  Association  for  permanent  record. 

VICE-PRESIDENTS  OF  STATES. 

Mrs.  Senator  BLAIR, New  Hampshire. 

Mrs.  Governor  DILLINGHAM, Vermont. 

Mrs.  ROGER  WOLCOTT, • .  Massachusetts. 

Mrs.  BURROWS, Rhode  Island. 

Mrs.  NICHOLAS  BEACH,  .    .    ... ,  Connecticut. 

Mrs.  Senator  McPHERSON, ....  New  Jersey. 

Miss  CHARLOTTE  PENDLETON, Philadelphia. 

Mrs.  Senator  GRAY, .        .    .  Delaware. 

Mrs.  MARY  WASHINGTON  KEYSER, Maryland. 

Mrs.  Senator  FAULKNER,  .......        ,  ..  West  Virginia. 

Mrs.  Judge  GOOLRICK, ....  Virginia. 

Mrs.  Senator  VANCE, North  Carolina. 

Mrs.  JOHN  W.  LEWIS,  ... South  Carolina. 

Miss  WHEELER,  ......        , Alabama. 

Mrs.  CLAUDIA  B.  MONEY, Mississippi. 

Mrs.  J.  WASHINGTON  STORY Louisiana. 

Mrs.  Senator  REAGAN, Texas. 

Mrs.  CLIFTON  R.  BRECKENRIDGE, Arkansas. 

Mrs.  MARY  B.  WASHINGTON, Tennessee. 

Mrs.  D.  MEAD  MASSIE, Ohio. 

Mrs.  Senator  COCKRELL, Missouri. 

Mrs.  JAMES  S.  CLARKSON, Iowa. 

Mrs.  LYMAN  TRUMBULL Illinois. 

Mrs.  Senator  STEWART,  ...........  Nevada. 

Mrs.  Senator  HEARST, California. 

Mrs.  Senator  DOLPH, Oregon. 

Mrs.  Senator  SQUIRE, Washington. 

MARGARET  HETZEL,  Sec'y.  N.  M.  W.  M.  A. 


CHAPTER  XI. 

THE  DAUGHTERS  OF  THE  AMERICAN  REVOLUTION. 

ON  October  nth,  1890,  the  Society  of 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  was 
formally  organized  at  the  Strathmore  Arms, 
the  home  of  Mrs.  Mary  S.  Lockwood,  Wash- 
ington, D.  C. 

The  work  had  been  suggested  and  planned 
by  Miss  Eugenia  Washington,  Miss  Mary 
Desha  and  Mrs.  Ellen  Hardin  Walworth,  the 
three  Founders.  They  had  held  a  meeting  in 
August.  Interest  had  also  been  aroused  by 
an  article  from  the  pen  of  Mrs.  Mary  S. 
Lockwood,  reviving  the  story  of  Hannah 
Arnett,  the  female  patriot,  related  in  1876  by 
her  descendant  Miss  Holdich,  concluding 
with  an  eloquent  appeal  to  the  women  of  the 
United  States  from  Mrs.  Lockwood.  Great 
enthusiasm  for  the  new  movement  was  ex- 
pressed by  Mrs.  Flora  Adams  Darling,  who 
at  once  set  to  work  to  assist  in  organization. 

The  first  formal  draught  of  organization 
was  signed  in  the  following  order :  Miss 
(70) 


MISS  MARY  DESHA. 

Founder  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution. 
Vice-President  at  Large  N.  M.  W.  M.  A. 


THE    DAUGHTERS.  71 

Eugenia  Washington,  Mrs.  Flora  Adams 
Darling,  Mrs.  Ellen  Hardin  Walworth,  Mrs. 
M.  M.  Hallowell,  Miss  Susan  Riviere  Hetzel, 
Mrs.  Margaretta  Hetzel,  Mrs.  Mary  V.  E. 
Cabell,  Mrs.  Mary  S.  Lockwood,  Mrs.  Alice 
Morrow  Clarke,  Mrs.  Ada  P.  Kimberly,  Miss 
Mary  Desha,  Professor  G.  B.  Goode,  Pro- 
fessor W.  C.  Winlock,  Mr.  W.  O.  McDowell, 
Mr.  Wilson  L.  Gill,  Mrs.  Aurelia  Hadley 
Mohl,  Miss  Floride  P.  Cunningham,  Miss 
Caroline  L.  Ransom,  Mrs.  Emily  Lee  Sher- 
wood, Mrs.  Harriet  Lincoln  Coolidge,  Mrs. 
Jennie  D.  Garrison  and  Pauline  McDowell. 

After  the  Constitution,  which  had  already 
been  considered  by  the  three  Founders,  had 
been  submitted  and  approved;  after  Mrs. 
Caroline  Scott  Harrison  had  been  elected 
President  General  and  other  offices  had  been 
filled,  Miss  Desha  offered  the  following  reso- 
lution : 

"  That  we  should  initiate  that  important  part  of 
the  work, '  the  securing  and  preserving  the  historical 
spots  of  America  and  the  erection  thereon  of  suita- 
ble monuments  to  perpetuate  the  memories  of  the 
heroic  deeds  of  the  men  and  women  who  aided  the 
Revolution  and  created  constitutional  government 
in  America  '  by  undertaking  to  do  what  we  can  to- 


72  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

wards  completing  the  monument  to  the  memory  of 
Mary  Washington,  and  we  hereby  call  upon  every 
patriot  to  send  in  a  contribution  large  or  small  for 
this  purpose." 

The  resolution  was  passed  unanimously, 
after  which  one  of  the  ladies  present  an- 
nounced that  the  Secretary  of  the  Mary 
Washington  Memorial  Association,  Mrs. 
Margaretta  Hetzel  was  present.  The  Secre- 
tary, who  had  been  taken  entirely  by  surprise 
could  only  rise  and  bow  her  acknowledge- 
ments to  the  welcome  and  congratulations 
extended  her. 

Mrs.  Waite  joined  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution  on  her  return  from 
Europe.  Her  number  was  48.  Mrs.  Emory 
and  Mrs.  Lee  both  joined  during  the  winter 
of  1892.  Mrs.  Lee  was  one  of  the  most 
efficient  of  the  early  members  of  the  infant 
society,  so  soon  to  become  a  great  associa- 
tion. She  was  elected  Regent  of  the  Mary 
Washington  Chapter  at  its  organization,  and 
still  holds  the  office  in  1901. 


CHAPTER  XII. 

THE    FIRST    ANNUAL   MEETING. 

In  January  1891  the  National  Mary  Wash- 
ington Memorial  Association  proposed  that 
the  Frederickburg  Monument  Association 
should  give  to  the  Trustees  of  the  National 
Association,  i.  e.,  the  President  of  the  United 
States,  ex-officio,  the  Chief  Justice  of  the 
United  States,  ex-officio,  and  the  Governor  of 
Virginia,  ex-officio,  a  deed  of  conveyance  of 
the  Mary  Washington  Monument  lot  condi- 
tional upon  the  National  Association  erecting  a 
suitable  monument  over  the  grave  of  Mary 
Washington,  to  be  begun  not  later  than  the 
22nd  of  February,  1894.  In  case  of  failure 
to  do  so  "the  title  shall  revert  to  the  present 
owners."  These  conditions  were  accepted 
by  the  Fredericksburg  Association. 

The  first  donation  sent  in  after  the  Appeal 
was  issued  was  $12  from  Mississippi,  collected 
by  Mrs.  Campbell  of  Jackson,  through  Mrs. 
Money. 

On  the  2ist  of  February,  1891,  ($500)  five 
(73) 


74  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

hundred  dollars  were  presented  by  Mr. 
George  W.  Childs  through  Hon.  Frank 
Hatton. 

On  the  next  day  the  22nd,  at  the  first 
Annual  Meeting,  Mrs.  Waite  presented  the 
following  report: 

"  We,  as  members  and  officers  of  the  National 
Mary  Washington  Memorial  Association,  have  come 
together  for  our  annual  meeting,  and  to  review  the 
work  of  the  past  year.  While  the  actual  showing 
is  not  great,  I  feel  we  have  reason  to  be  encouraged. 
It  is  much  to  organize  and  set  in  motion  the  ma- 
chinery for  work  and  enterprise.  There  has  been 
an  immense  amount  of  correspondence,  printing, 
circulating  of  pamphlets,  &c.,  as  well  as  innumerable 
interviews  and  consultations. 

"  We  have  tried  to  secure  vice-presidents  in  every 
State  and  Territory  of  the  Union.  While  in  some 
States  we  have  as  yet  been  unsuccessful,  in  most 
instances  we  have  representatives,  and  we  hope  ere 
long  to  have  good  working  agents  and  favourable 
reports  from  every  available  point.  So  far,  much  of 
the  money  received  has  been  expended  in  prelimi- 
nary work.  We  have  printed  and  circulated  2,000 
copies  of  our  by-laws  and  30,000  circulars,  calling 
attention  to  our  work  and  inviting  co-operation. 
The  amount  of  postage  which  all  this  required  was 
necessarily  large.  There  has  been  no  charge  for 


THE    FIRST    ANNUAL    MEETING.  75 

time  or  labour,  and  the  necessary  expenses  have 
been  cut  down  as  close  as  possible,  consistent  with 
the  proper  accomplishment  of  the  work. 

"  We  have  received  cordial  replies  from  the  Vice- 
Presidents  of  twenty-seven  States,  many  of  whom 
have  commenced  work,  but  have  not  yet  sent  in 
their  contributions,  wishing  doubtless  to  present 
their  full  contributions  at  one  time. 

#  #  #  *  #  # 

"While  all  the  officers  have  worked  well  and 
faithfully,  it  seems  but  right  that  we  should  express 
our  sincere  gratitude  to  our  Secretary,  who  has  been 
so  untiringly  devoted  to  the  work.  She  has  been 
unceasing  in  her  efforts,  never  losing  faith,  and  in- 
spiring others  through  her  enthusiasm. 

"  AMELIA  C  WAITE,  President" 

The  Secretary  followed  with  a  report  in 
which  she  alluded  to  her  difficulty  in  securing 
Vice-Presidents  in  these  words: 

"  Our  great  distance  from  many  of  the  States  and 
slight  acquaintance  with  their  people;  the  many 
difficulties  when  a  selection  having  been  made,  we 
find  that  from  ill  health  or  other  causes  they  were 
unable  to  undertake  the  work,  made  progress  slow, 
and  many  have  been  our  disappointments  owing  to 
ladies  accepting  and  afterwards  declining." 

After  the  meeting  however,  the  contribu- 
tions began  to  come  in. 


CHAPTER  XIII. 

RESPONSES   FROM  THE  STATES   VERMONT,  LOUISI- 
ANA, MARYLAND,  NEW  JERSEY  AND  THE 
CAROLINAS,  NEW  YORK,  NEVADA, 
CALIFORNIA  AND  COLORADO. 

THROUGH  the  kind  interest  of  the  Senator 
from  Vermont,  his  wife,  Mrs.  Justin  Morrill, 
and  her  sister  Miss  Swan,  Mrs.  Governor 
Dillingham  was  appointed  Vice  President  for 
Vermont  in  1889.  She  went  to  work  with 
such  courage,  vigour  and  perseverance  that 
a  few  days  after  the  annual  meeting  of  Feb- 
ruary 22nd,  1891,  she  sent  six  hundred  and 
twenty  dollars  from  the  Green  Mountain 
State. 

Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Story  of  Louisiana  was 
recommended  to  the  Secretary  by  her  old 
friend  Col.  William  Preston  Johnston,  in 
1889.  Mrs.  Story  accepted  with  the  enthusi- 
asm of  a  true  Virginian,  for  her  mother  was 
a  Washington  of  King  George  County.  She 
organized  a  Mary  Washington  Society  in 
(76) 


MRS.  W.  P.  DILLINGHAM. 

Vermont. 


RESPONSES    FROM    THE    STATES.  77 

New  Orleans  in  May,  1890,  aided  by  Mrs. 
Charles  Conrad,  Mrs.  William  Preston  John- 
ston, Miss  Mildred  Lee  and  others.  They 
resolved  to  have  the  Carnival  Ball  of  1891  a 
Colonial  Ball  in  honour  of  Mary  Washington. 
On  February  loth  the  ball  took  place  and 
the  New  Orleans  daily,  papers  thus  describe  it : 

"  The  National  Mary  Washington  Memorial  Ball, 
given  at  Odd  Fellows  Hall,  was  one  of  the  most 
beautifnl  entertainments  of  the  kind  ever  held  in 
New  Orleans.  The  ladies  under  whose  manage- 
ment the  ball  was  given,  were  untiring  in  their 
efforts,  and  the  result  was  a  financial  and  brilliant 
social  success.  The  hall  was  beautifully  decorated 
with  palms,  ferns,  palmettoes  and  other  potted 
plants,  the  windows  and  chandelliers  were  draped 
with  the  colonial  colours,  blue  and  yellow.  A  fine 
band  was  in  attendance,  and  discoursed  delightful 
music  before  the  formal  opening  of  the  ball  by  the 
minuet.  About  ten  o'clock  the  door  of  the  dining 
room  opened,  and  those  participating  in  the  grand 
march  and  minuet  entered  as  the  band  played  the 
'  Washington  March.'  First  came  a  detachment  of 
the  Continental  Guards  in  full  uniform  escorting 
General  Washington,  who  was  impersonated  by 
Mr.  Gus.  A.  Breaux,  and  Martha  Washington  in 
the  person  of  Mrs.  Benjamin  S.  Story,  a  descendant 
of  the  Washington  family.  They  were  followed  by 


78  BUILDING   OF    A    MONUMENT. 

twenty-four  young  ladies  and  gentlemen,  each 
dressed  to  represent  some  prominent  character  of 
the  colonial  days.  When  the  march  was  concluded 
and  the  floor  cleared  the  couples  went  through  the 
figures  of  the  minuet.  Miss  Gretchen  Muller,  as 
Mrs.  Jefferson,  her  ancestress,  led  the  minuet. 
Miss  Muller  was  the  personification  of  grace,  and 
her  dancing  elicited  comments  of  universal  admira- 
tion. Her  costume  was  particularly  noticeable, 
and  was  a  rich  cream-coloured  satin  and  gold 
brocade  court  train  with  petticoat  of  white  satin, 
draped  in  gorgeous  duchesse  lace  flounces,  an  heir- 
loom in  the  family ;  her  ornaments  were  pearls  and 
cameos,  also  heirlooms.  Miss  Muller  danced  with 
Mr.  Davidson  Penn.  *  *  *  Miss  Evelyn  Krum- 
bhaar  impersonated  Nellie  Custis,  her  ancestress, 
and  was  dressed  in  green  satin  train  with  white 
satin  petticoat  embroidered  in  red  and  green.  The 
handsome  lace  she  wore  belonged  to  Martha  Wash- 
ington and  the  shoe  buckles  worn  were  General 
Washington's.  She  danced  with  Mr.  Wilcox. 
*  *  *  Mrs.  Mason  Cooke  as  Mrs.  Abigail  Adams, 
wore  yellow  satin  and  gold  brocade  with  jewelled 
girdle.  Mrs.  Gus.  Breaux  [Mrs.  John  Jay]  wore  a 
magnificent  robe  of  brocaded  satin,  cream  colour 
and  point  lace  with  jewelled  trimmings  and  hand- 
some diamond  ornaments." 

Among  the  treasures  displayed  was  a  pearl 
and  brocade  fan  over  a  hundred  years  old. 


RESPONSES    FROM    THE    STATES.  79 

Mrs.  Story  was  assisted  by  a  fine  corps  of 
Managers,  among  them  was  Mrs.  Charles  A. 
Conrad.  Her  husband,  Judge  Conrad,  was 
the  grandson  of  Nellie  Custis  and  Lawrence 
Lewis,  so  that  he  was  a  descendant  of  both 
Mary  and  Martha  Washington. 

The  result  of  this  beautiful  carnival  was 
$900,  which  the  Secretary  received  a  few  days 
later. 

On  March  i7th,  the  Mary  Washington 
Association  had  the  great  pleasure  of  wel- 
coming Mrs.  Terhune  in  Washington  City. 
She  gave  a  lecture  on  Mary  Washington,  for 
the  benefit  of  the  cause,  at  the  house  of  Mr. 
J.  W.  Thompson  on  I  Street,  Miss  Ida 
Thompson  having  kindly  offered  her  ball 
room  for  the  lecture.  The  paper  was  entitled 
"  Motherhood,"  and  Mary  Washington  was 
the  central  figure.  The  audience  was  large 
and  enthusiastic;  as  one  young  lady  re- 
marked, "  It  was  worth  everything  to  see 
Marion  Harland."  This  admirable  lecture 
was  one  of  a  series  that  Mrs.  Terhune  de- 
livered for  the  Mary  Washington  Association, 
and  which  was  such  an  important  factor  in 
building  the  monument.  On  May  5th  she 


8O  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

sent  the  Treasurer  $836.50,  and  this  was  only 
the  beginning  of  her  good  work. 

During  that  month  of  March,  1891,  three 
Vice-Presidents  sent  in  $400,  Mrs.  McPher- 
son  of  New  Jersey,  Mrs.  Vance  of  North 
Carolina,  and  Mrs.  Keyser  of  Maryland. 

Mrs.  Mary  Washington  Keyser,  the 
daughter  of  Lewis  William  Washington  of 
Charles  Town,  West  Virginia,  great  grand- 
son of  Mary  Washington's  son  John  Augus- 
tine, and  also  of  her  step-son  Augustine,  felt 
hampered  in  her  work  in  Maryland,  for  it 
seemed  as  if  she  were  soliciting  for  her 
family  and  her  name ;  but  she  went  bravely 
to  work  and  collected  dollar  contributions 
from  her  friends  in  Baltimore,  and  when  she 
sent  in  the  amount  collected,  in  March,  she 
invited  the  National  Board  of  Lady  Managers 
to  Baltimore  to  meet  the  400  donors. 

Accordingly,  Mrs.  Waite,  Mrs.  Lee,  Mrs. 
Hetzel,  Miss  Davidge  and  Miss  Hetzel  left 
Washington  at  10  o'clock;  they  were  met  at 
the  train  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Keyser,  taken  to 
see  the  beauties  of  the  Walters  Gallery, 
whence  they  returned  to  Mrs.  Keyser's  to 
luncheon.  They  were  hospitably  entertained 


MRS.  H.  IRVINE  KEYSER. 
CNEE  MARY  WASHINGTON-) 
Vice-President  of  Maryland. 


RESPONSES    FROM    THE    STATES.  8 1 

by  their  hostess,  assisted  by  her  daughter, 
Miss  Mary  Washington  Keyser,  and  her 
sister-in-law,  Mrs.  James  Barroll  Washing- 
ton. 

The  Baltimore  members  of  the  Mary 
Washington  Association  came  in  to  afternoon 
tea;  the  400  of  Baltimore,  literally,  as  their 
donation  testified,  each  wore  the  ribbon  por- 
trait badge,  the  insignia  of  the  dollar  mem- 
bership. Every  age  was  represented,  from 
Miss  Harriet  Parks  Alricks  to  the  grand- 
children of  Mrs.  Andrew  Reid,  the  grand- 
daughter of  Betty  Washington's  youngest 
son,  Howell  Lewis.  A  dear  little  boy,  An- 
drew Reid  Bird,  wore  his  badge  with  great 
pride  saying:  "I  am  a  Mary  Washington 
boy,  and  she  is  my  grandma's  great-grand- 
mother." Among  those  present  was  Mrs. 
Charles  Bonaparte,  Mrs.  Henrietta  Lay  and 
Miss  Anna  Campbell,  the  daughters  of  Jus- 
tice John  A.  Campbell  of  the  Supreme  Court 
of  the  United  States,  and  later  of  the  Con- 
federacy; Mrs.  Carr,  daughter  of  Hon.  Rev- 
erdy  Johnson,  Mrs.  Laurason  Riggs,  and 
Miss  Virginia  Tayloe  1  ,ewis,  another  descend- 
ant of  Mary  Washington,  her  father,  Captain 
6 


82  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Henry  Lewis  being  the  grandson  of  Major 
George  Lewis,  son  of  Betty  Washington,  a 
member  of  the  staff  of  his  uncle,  General 
Washington,  and  heir  of  one  of  his  swords. 
A  newspaper  report  of  this  gathering  claimed 
that  "  never  before  was  there  an  assemblage 
at  which  so  many  of  the  direct  and  collateral 
descendants  of  the  distinguished  and  lovable 
woman  whose  memory  it  is  proposed  to  per- 
petuate were  present.  Aside  from  the  de- 
lightful social  amenities  of  the  occasion,  it 
augurs  well  for  the  success  of  the  movement 
which  the  ladies  have  at  heart." 

On  March  3ist,  1891,  Easter  Tuesday,  a 
beautiful  ball  was  given  in  the  Grand  Opera 
House,  Charleston,  S.  C.,  by  the  Vice-  President 
for  South  Carolina,  Mrs.  Elise  Rhett  Lewis, 
who  was  appointed  through  Miss  Floride 
Cunningham. 

The  Charleston  ".News  and  Courier"  thus 
describes  it : 

"  A  magic  wand  must  have  swayed  over  the 
scene  before  the  curtain  rose,  for  the  audience  was 
transported  to  a  grand  and  spacious  ball  room  with 
a  radiance  of  brilliant,lights  and  luxurious  hangings 
of  ye  olden  time;  gentlemen  in  fascinating  short 
clothes,  diamond  knee  buckles,  powdered  wigs  and 


RESPONSES    FROM    THE    STATES.  83 

beautiful  lace  ruffles,  and  colonial  dames  and 
demoiselles  in  brocaded  gowns  that  would  '  stand 
alone '  in  the  midst  of  a  grand  ball  given  in  honour 
of  General  Washington  and  his  officers.  *  * 

"  The  capacious  stage  of  the  Grand  Opera  House, 
a  ball-room  in  itself,  was  thrown  into  an  apartment. 
On  its  gaily  frescoed  walls  hung  family  portraits 
and  rich  mirrors.  Costly  portieres  of  crimson  and 
buff  damask  and  rare  bits  of  tapestry  hung  over 
the  doors  and  windows,  while  from  crystal  chande- 
lliers  and  silver  sconces  and  candelabra  glittered 
hundreds  of  wax  candles. 

"  To  the  strains  of  the  Star  Spangled  Banner, 
General  Washington  [most  faithfully  personated  on 
this  occasion  by  Col.  Charles  Armstrong],  attended 
by  his  generals  [represented  by  the  officers  of  the 
4th  Brigade],  entered  the  salon  and  marched  to  the 
music  of  the  Union  to  the  footlights.  In  the  rear 
came  the  crimson  foids  of  the  Eutaw  flag  of  historic 
memory  borne  by  the  sturdy  colour  sergeant  of 
the  Washington  Light  Infantry,  William  T.  Salas, 
who  thus  recalled  Jasper  amid  the  plaudits  of  the 
audience." 

Colonel  Armstrong  as  General  Washing- 
ton, opened  the  pageant  with  a  fine  speech, 
concluding  with  these  eloquent  words : 

"  Paeans  have  arisen  from  grateful  hearts  for  the 
men  who  so  successfully  fought  our  battles.  Shall 


84  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

the  services  and  sacrifies  of  our  noble  women  be 
forgotten  ?  Their  faith  it  the  triumph  of  our  cause 
remained  firm  during  the  darkest  days  of  the 
Revolution.  We  read  in  the  Grecian  story  of  the 
Lacedaemonian  mother,  who  addressing  her  son 
going  to  battle  said,  '  Return,  living  with  your 
shield  or  dead  upon  it.'  Many  American  mothers 
not  only  emulated  the  heroines  of  ancient  Sparta, 
but  excelled  them.  They  did  not  adjure  their  sons 
to  do  their  duty.  They  had  confidence  in  the 
courage  and  fidelity  of  their  boys,  and  knew  they 
preferred  death  to  dishonour.  When  the  lament- 
able tidings  of  the  death  of  their  sons  reached  them 
they  shed  tears  of  sorrow,  but  in  the  sanctuary  of 
home,  before  the  family  altar,  they  humbly  knelt 
and  thanked  the  Creator  that  with  these  tears  of 
sorrow  there  were  no  tears  of  shame.  The  women 
of  America  did  as  much  for  our  cause  as  the  men. 
Among  the  names  that  shine  star-like  in  the  firma- 
ment of  the  Nation's  glory  are  those  of  Mrs.  Motte, 
Mrs.  Bratton,  Mrs.  Elliot  and  Mrs.  Brewton." 

The  Sir  Roger  de  Coverly  followed,  danced 
by  fifty  couples,  then  some  choice  musical 
selections  were  succeeded  by  the  "  Tempest 
Dance,"  more  music,  and  finally,  the  Minuet, 
led  by  Mrs.  Edward  Simons  and  Mr.  Du 
Bose  Boylston,  which  gave  all  a  splendid 
opportunity  for  the  study  of  heirlooms  and 


RESPONSES    FROM    THE    STATES.  85 

jewels.  The  ball  then  became  general,  and 
the  stage  was  soon  filled  with  the  modern 
dresses  of  the  audience,  mingled  with  the 
colonial  costumes  of  the  performers. 

"  Many  of  those  taking  part  in  the  entertainment 
were  direct  descendants  of  Colonial  dignitaries, 
representing  the  families  of  Washington,  Allston, 
Landgrave,  Smith,  Pinckney,  Rutledge,  Pickens, 
Hayne,  Simons,  Huger,  Grimke,  Eliot,  Rhett, 
Barnwell,  Marion,  Moultrie  and  others.  One  of 
the  ladies  of  the  reception  committee  was  a  g-g-g-g- 
great  granddaughter  of  Joseph  Ball,  the  father  of 
Mary  Ball,  afterwards  Mrs.  Washington,  and  also  a 
g-g-g-g-great  granddaughter  of  Lawrence  Wash- 
ington, brother  of  John,  the  great  grandfather  of 
George.  Some  descendants  of  noted  tories  were 
also  there,  uniting  amicable  with  the  whigs  in  doing 
honour  to  the  mother  of  the  greatest  man  of  a  great 
nation." 

Among  the  beautiful  costumes  described 
were  two  gowns  that  once  belonged  to  Mrs. 
Rebecca  Motte,  worn  by  her  descendants 
Miss  Alice  Rutledge  and  Mrs.  H.  E.  Young. 
Mrs.  Young  also  wore  a  beautiful  Washing- 
ton medallion.  Mrs.  J.  Langdon  Weber 
wore  an  elegant  historic  costume  and  carried 
a  fan  that  had  once  belonged  to  a  niece  of 


86  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Mary  Ball.  Mrs.  H.  Tupper  wore  a  bro- 
caded silk  300  years  old. 

"And  so,"  concluded  the  News  and 
Courier,  "  the  Mary  Washington  Ball  has 
passed  into  history,  one  of  the  most  brilliant 
triumphs  of  the  social  world  of  Charleston." 

Mrs.  Lewis  was  assisted  by  Mrs.  George 
M.  Trenholm  and  other  ladies.  117  dollars 
were  netted  by  the  entertainment,  which  with 
membership  fees  and  dues  and  collections 
from  many  sources  mounted  to  $587,  which 
were  gladly  and  gratefully  received  by  the 
Board. 

On  being  asked  to  suggest  a  Vice-Presi- 
dent  for  New  York  State,  Mrs.  Ellen  Hardin 
Walworth  named  Mrs.  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  of 
Albany.  The  Secretary  wrote  to  Mrs.  Pruyn 
who  replied  that  she  could  not  take  the  office 
herself  as  she  was  going  to  Europe,  but  she 
recommended  her  friend,  Mrs.  Catherine 
Gansevoort  Lansing  of  Albany.  Mrs.  Lans- 
ing accepted,  and  her  constant,  faithful,  un- 
tiring service  has  been  unequaled. 

Mrs.  Stewart,  having  lost  a  beloved  daugh- 
ter in  1890,  and  feeling,  on  that  account,  un- 
equal to  attending  to  the  Mary  Washington 


RESPONSES    FROM    THE    STATES.  87 

work  in  Nevada,  recommended  Mrs.  Gov- 
ernor Adams  as  her  successor.  Mrs.  Hetzel 
wrote  to  Mrs.  Adams,  who  responded  so  ad- 
mirably, that  she  sent  the  following  spring 
$2I3-35  tne  result  of  her  industry  and  enter- 
prise. This  donation,  from  the  smallest  State 
in  population,  greatly  cheered  the  Board. 

On  June  ist,  1891,  Mrs.  Waite  left  Wash- 
ington for  a  visit  to  the  Pacific  Coast.  Be- 
fore leaving  she  sent  to  the  Secretary  a  letter 
from  Mrs.  Phebe  A.  Hearst,  announcing  that 
she  had  forwarded  to  the  Treasurer  one 
thousand  and  ninety-two  dollars  and  ten 
cents  ($1092.10)  collected  in  California,  the 
largest  contribution  that  had  been  made. 

Miss  Waite  had  written  to  a  friend  in  Colo- 
rado inviting  her  to  be  Vice-President  for 
that  State,  but  the  lady  declined,  saying  that 
Colorado  was  too  poor  a  State  to  be  raising 
funds  for  outside  objects.  Mrs.  Hetzel,  how- 
ever, felt  that  there  must  be  women  in  Colo- 
rado ready  to  do  their  part  in  honouring  the 
grave  of  the  mother  of  Washington,  so  by 
the  advice  of  a  friend — the  former  Seccetary 
of  the  Mount  Vernon  Association — she  wrote 
to  Bishop  Spalding  of  Colorado,  who  re- 


88  BUILDING   OF   A    MONUMENT. 

sponded  in  a  sympathetic  and  appreciative 
letter,  recommending  the  wife  of  Judge 
Macon,  of  Denver,  as  the  most  capable  and 
energetic  woman  in  the  State.  Mrs.  Hetzel 
wrote  at  once  to  Mrs.  Macon,  who  responded 
immediately  saying  that  she  would  gladly  ac- 
cept the  Vice-Presidency,  for  she  took  the 
greatest  interest  in  the  subject,  as  the  old 
monument  was  one  of  her  earliest  memories. 
She  was  a  Virginian,  and  her  childhood  home 
was  on  the  farm  adjoining  Kenmore.  The 
subject  recalled  her  youth  in  Virginia,  and 
she  wrote  most  interesting  letters  full  of 
reminiscenses,  of  visits  across  the  Rappahan- 
nock  to  Chatham  and  Pine  Grove;  of  the 
stories  told  by  her  mother  and  grandmother 
of  General  Washington's  visits  to  his  mother. 
When  they  told  of  Madam  Washington  tend- 
erly brushing  the  powder  from  her  son's  coat, 
she,  a  child,  knowing  nothing  of  hair  powder, 
thought  that  the  General  must  have  visited 
his  mother  fresh  from  the  battlefield  with  the 
gunpowder  still  covering  his  garments. 

On  June  ist,  1891,  Mrs.  Macon  gave  a 
theatrical  entertainment  for  the  benefit  of  the 
Mary  Washington  fund.  She  herself  wrote 


RESPONSES    FROM    THE    STATES.  89 

appeals  to  the  Sons  of  America,  the  G.  A.  R., 
the  Freemasons  of  Colorado  and  other  so- 
cieties, urging  them  to  rescue  from  oblivion 
and  neglect  the  grave  of  Mary  Washington, 
and  erect  a  monument  worthy  of  such  a  son, 
She  was  indefatigable;  every  Denver  news- 
paper had  some  appeal  or  article  written 
either  by  Mrs.  Macon  herself  or  by  some  of 
her  many  friends.  Among  these  contribu- 
tions was  an  interesting  account  of  a  visit  to 
the  old  monument  and  Mary  Washington's 
home  by  Mrs.  Belford,  the  wife  of  a  Denver 
Congressman. 

The  amateur  theatricals  were  a  complete 
success.  "The  Rough  Diamond,"  "Les 
Precieuses  Ridicules,"  and  "  Dominick's 
Love,"  were  admirably  rendered  by  Miss 
Maude  Durbin,  Miss  Anna  Cooper,  Mr.  John 
R.  Sumner  and  others.  Mrs.  Mason  sent  to 
the  Secretary  $288.18  as  the  result. 

During  the  month  of  June  the  Secretary 
received  a  donation  of  $=;o  from  Mr.  Have- 

Tr   v/ 

meyer  of  New  York,  through  Mrs.  Goolrick 
of  Fredericksburg. 


CHAPTER  XIV. 

MRS.  PRYOR  AT  THE  WHITE  SULPHUR  SPRINGS. 

EARLY  in  the  spring  of  1891,  Mrs.  Emory, 
ist  Vice-President  of  the  Mary  Washington 
Association,  received  a  letter  from  Mrs. 
Roger  A.  Pryor  of  New  York,  then  Regent 
of  the  New  York  City  Chapter  D.  A.  R.,  ex- 
pressing great  interest  in  the  Mary  Wash- 
ington Association,  and  asking  to  be  allowed 
to  aid  the  cause.  She  was  made  Vice-Presi- 
dent at  Large  among  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution  and  the  Colonial 
Dames,  and  at  once  began  her  work.  For 
several  months  she  collected  dollar  member- 
ships. In  May,  1891,  she  wrote  to  the  Sec- 
retary asking  the  price  of  a  Life  Membership. 
The  Secretary  after  much  consultation  with 
the  President  and  the  Vice-Presidents,  replied 
that  the  price  of  a  Life  Membership  would  be 
$25.  Mrs.  Pryor  responded  by  sending  $25 
for  a  Life  Membership  for  Mrs.  H.  F.  Lovell, 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  incorporators  on  May 
(90) 


MRS.  ROGER   A.  PRYOR. 

(NEE  SARAH  AGNES  RICE.) 

Vice-President  at  T.arge- 


AT    WHITE    SULPHUR    SPRINGS.  9! 

26th,  the  last  one  held  before  the  President's 
departure  for  California,  the  design  for  the 
life  member's  badge  was  decided  upon  and 
the  resolutions  adopted  to  make  the  Life 
Membership  hereditary.  The  design,  a  five- 
pointed  star,  with  the  head  of  Mary  Wash- 
ington in  the  centre,  was  suggested  by  Miss 
Hetzel.  In  June,  Mrs.  Hetzel  with  her 
daughter  consulted  Dr.  Hoffman,  of  the  U.  S. 
Geological  Survey,  about  the  proposed  in- 
signia, he  being  an  acknowledged  authority 
in  such  matters,  having  perfected  the  beauti- 
ful idea  of  the  spinning  wheel  as  the  insignia 
of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion. Dr.  Hoffman  kindly  lent  his  aid,  ap- 
proved the  design  and  recommended  Cald- 
well  &  Co.,  of  Philadelphia,  as  the  jewellers 
to  execute  the  work. 

Mrs.  Pryor  was  spending  the  summer  at 
the  White  Sulphur  Springs,  where  she  was 
earnestly  working  for  the  Mary  Washington 
Monument.  She  collected  many  dollar  con- 
tributions, and  persuaded  the  ladies  to  make 
their  annual  fete  a  Mary  Washington  Colon- 
ial Ball.  Every  one  attending  was  requested 
to  purchase  a  Mary  Washington  badge. 


92  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Mrs.  Pryor,  finding  that  several  of  the  guests 
would  like  to  become  life  members,  wrote  to 
Mrs.  Hetzel  asking  her  if  it  were  not  pos- 
sible to  have  some  badges  finished  so  that 
they  might  be  worn  at  the  ball.  Mrs.  Het- 
zel wrote  at  once  to  Caldwell  and  Co.  that 
there  was  a  demand  for  the  insignia.  The 
representative  of  Caldwell  at  once  repaired 
to  the  country  home  of  Mrs.  Hetzel  at  Clif- 
ton, Virginia,  with  a  specimen  medal  which 
was  found  eminently  satisfactory.  Fifty 
medals  were  ordered,  and  five  sent  to  Mrs. 
Pryor,  and  at  the  Colonial  ball  at  the  White 
Sulphur  Springs,  the  beautiful  insignia  of  the 
Mary  Washington  Association  made  its  first 
appearance. 

At  the  grand  pageant  that  opened  the  ball, 
Mrs.  Pryor  led  the  march  as  Mary  Washing- 
ton, escorted  by  Governor  Fitzhugh  Lee,  who 
might  have  impersonated  either  Light  Horse 
Harry,  or  his  other  renowned  ancestor, 
George  Mason.  Mrs.  Pryor  was  dressed  in 
antique  treasures  of  silks,  laces  and  jewels, 
sent  for  the  occasion  by  the  ladies  of  the 
Fredericksburg  Monument  Association,  but 
her  most  conspicuous  treasure  was  a  gold 


AT   WHITE    SULPHUR   SPRINGS.  93 

Mary  Washington  star  presented  by  the  lady 
managers  of  the  ball. 

It  was  decided  by  a  committee  of  ladies 
who  aided  Mrs.  Pryor,  that  part  of  the  pro- 
ceeds should  be  used  for  presenting  medals: 
to  Mrs.  Annie  Camm,  of  Richmond,  for  great 
services ;  to  General  Charles  Anderson,  for 
securing  the  Virginia  colors  and  U.  S.  colors 
to  decorate  the  ball  room  ;  and  to  Miss  Mary 
Custis  Lee,  as  a  testimonial  to  her  father. 

The  other  Hereditary  Life  Members  pres- 
ent were  Mrs.  Benjamin  Rowland,  of  Phila- 
delphia; Mrs.  Charles  H.  Senff,  of  Long 
Island;  Mrs.  Cross,  of  Emporia,  Kansas; 
Miss  Jennie  Inman,  now  Mrs.  Payne,  of  New 
York  City,  and  Miss  Maude  Lee  Davidge, 
of  Washington,  D.  C,  Original  Incorporator. 

The  ball  room  was  decorated  in  the  most 
exquisite  manner  with  flowers,  flags  and 
banners;  the  American  Flag  and  the  State 
banner  of  West  Virginia,  the  State  banner  of 
Virginia  sent  by  the  Governor  of  Virginia, 
and  the  official  State  flag  of  the  Governor  of 
New  York  lent  for  the  occasion  by  Governor 
Hill ;  as  a  prominent  official  remarked : 
"  that  Mrs.  Pryor  might  stand  beneath  the 


94  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

banner  of  her  native  State  and  the  State  ot 
her  adoption." 

The  costumes  were  superb,  and  Mrs. 
Pryor  wrote  that  it  was  conceded  by  all  that 
it  was  the  most  beautiful  ball  ever  given  at 
that  world  renowned  summer  resort,  the 
White  Sulphur  Springs. 

Mrs.  Pryor's  untiring  zeal  and  unsurpassed 
ability  resulted  in  securing  $803.00  for  the 
monument. 

Medals  were  sent  to  the  five  Original  In- 
corporators,  and  to  all  persons  who  had 
previously  given  $25  or  more.  Mrs.  Russell 
A.  Alger  of  Michigan,  Mrs.  John  V.  L. 
Pruyn  of  Albany,  and  Mr.  Havemeyer  of 
New  York,  all  received  medals,  likewise  Mr. 
George  W.  Childs,  who  sent  a  most  graceful 
and  interesting  letter  of  acknowledgment. 


INSIGNIA. 
Obverse  Side. 


CHAPTER  XV. 

THE    ILLINOIS    BRANCH. 

MRS.  WAITE,  on  her  return  from  the  Pacific 
Coast  stopped  at  Chicago  and  there  presided 
at  a  meeting  called  September  ist,  1891,  to 
organize  the  Illinois  Branch  of  the  National 
Mary  Washington  Memorial  Association. 
The  meeting  was  held  at  the  Leland  Hotel. 
Chief  Justice  Fuller  opened  the  meeting  with 
an  address  explaining  the  objects  of  the  As- 
sociation. Judge  Lyman  Trumbull  followed 
in  an  eloquent  address,  dwelling  on  the 
womanliness  of  Mary  Washington  and  urging 
that  the  children  of  to-day  might  be  taken 
back  to  the  Colonial  simplicity  of  the  time  in 
which  she  lived. 

Dr.  H.  W.  Thomas  preached  a  sermon  the 
following  Sunday  on  "The  Higher  Values," 
and  one  of  his  sentences  I  will  transcribe : 

"  And  there  is  one  more  name  that  this  land 
should  honor;  it  should  build  a  monument  to  the 
mother  of  Washington;  and  in  doing  this,  a  monu- 
(95) 


96  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

ment  to  the  mothers  of  the  land  who  bore  and 
reared  its  soldiers,  its  generals  and  its  presidents;  a 
monument  to  motherhood.  And  it  is  fitting  that 
the  noble  women  of  the  land  are  working  for  this 
worthy  object  as  one  feature  of  the  Columbian  Ex- 
position; and  the  money  should  not  be  the  gift  of 
a  few,  but  the  glad  offering  of  all  the  children  and 
the  men  and  women  of  every  State." 

Mrs.  Trumbull  was  formally  elected  Presi- 
dent, though  she  had  been  working  many 
months  for  the  cause.  She  was  a  cousin  of 
the  President  and  Secretary  as  was  also  her 
renowned  husband.  With  the  enthusiasm 
and  patriotism  inherited  from  a  long  line  of 
Revolutionary  ancestors,  Seldens,  Mathers 
and  Dudleys,  she  went  to  work.  She  en- 
listed many  Hereditary  Life  Members;  among 
others  Mrs.  Potter  Palmer,  her  mother 
Mrs.  Honore,  Miss  Colvin,  Mrs.  Wilmarth 
and  Mrs.  General  Stuart.  Many  entertain- 
ments were  given,  concerts  and  lecture  by 
Mrs.  John  Sherwood.  On  February  22nd, 
1892,  a  Colonial  Tea  was  given  to  the  lady 
managers  of  the  Columbian  Exposition  there 
assembled  in  conference.  Mrs.  Trumbull, 
Mrs.  Potter  Palmer,  Mrs.  Shepard,  Mrs.  Ida 


THE    ILLINOIS    BRANCH.  97 

Preston  Gibson  and  other  distinguished 
Chicago  women  did  the  honours  of  the  occa- 
sion. Mrs.  Trumbull  sent  $1,000  to  the 
Secretary  as  the  result  of  her  good  work  in 
Illinois. 
7 


CHAPTER  XVI. 

WASHINGTON  AND  NEW  YORK  IN   1892. 

IN  January,  1892,  Mrs.  Cilley  [now  Mrs. 
Arthur  Clarke],  of  New  Hampshire,  was 
spending  the  winter  in  Washington.  She 
gathered  around  her  a  bevy  of  the  most 
beautiful  and  gifted  young  girls  oi  the  Capitol 
and  gave  some  parlor  theatricals  in  the  ban- 
queting hall  of  the  Arlington,  for  the  benefit 
of  the  Mary  Washington  Monument.  As- 
sisted by  her  friend,  Mrs.  Harris,  who  super- 
intended the  music,  aided  by  the  Marine 
Band,  Mrs.  Cilley  showed  herself  an  efficient 
and  untiring  stage  manager  and  worker. 
"The  Bachelor's  Dream  the  Night  before  the 
Wedding,"  a  tableau  vivant,  was  beautifully 
rendered.  Mr.  Wilson,  as  the  bachelor,  must 
have  been  an  artist  and  a  traveller,  for  he 
saw  visions  of  beautiful  women  from  all  over 
the  world.  To  the  music  of  "  How  So  Fair," 
Miss  Knowles  glided  in  in  an  empire  gown, 
followed  by  the  strains  of  the  Mikado  usher- 
ing in  Miss  Sutherland  in,  a  real  Japanese 
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WASHINGTON    AND    NEW    YORK.  99 

costume,  as  if  actually  "  In  Tokio."  "  In  Lu- 
cerne "  brought  Miss  Skerrett,  in  a  veritable 
Swiss  peasant's  dress,  to  the  music  of  "La 
Fille  de  Madame  Angot."  "In  Rome,"  a 
nun,  portrayed  by  Miss  Thompson,  piously 
turned  away  her  head  to  the  strains  of  the 
prayer  from  "Der  Freischutz."  The  solem- 
nity of  this  devoted  maiden  was  soon  forgot- 
ten, for  "Come  With  the  Gypsey  Bride" 
brought  Miss  Courtney  Walthall,  so  radiant 
in  her  scarlet  and  gold  that  I  am  sure  every 
young  man  present  wished  that  he  too  were 
"In  Bohemia."  To  another  andante,  "Fair 
Harvard,"  came  a  Boston  girl,  not  in  the 
eye-glasses  of  to-day,  but  a  sweet-faced  Pris- 
cilla,  Miss  Eastman.  Miss  Cambell  followed 
as  a  Spanish  lady,  while  the  band  played  the 
fandango  ;  Miss  Kelton  glided  in,  striking  a 
lyre,  to  the  strains  of  the  "  Maid  of  Athens;" 
"A  Daughter  of  the  Cavaliers,"  Miss  Annie 
Rundlett,  rustled  in  to  the  music  of  "Amaryl- 
lis," in  an  old  brocade  that  had  graced  the 
Williamsburg  Court  in  the  olden  time.  This 
vision  of  loveliness  was  succeeded  by  Miss 
Washburn,  who  entered  as  a  beautiful  bride 
to  the  wedding  march ;  the  bachelor  fell  on 


IOO  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

his  knees  before  the  chosen  one,  and  the 
scene  closed. 

This  was  followed  by  a  pretty  little  comedy, 
"  The  Only  Young  Man  in  Town,"  in  which 
Mr.  Pierre  Stevens  found  himself  pursued  by 
a  managing  mamma  with  an  sesthetic  daugh- 
ter, half  a  dozen  other  love-lorn  maidens  and 
a  designing  widow.  Miss  Victoria  Emory, 
Misses  Denver,  Cuthbert,  Cabell,  Mattingly 
and  Gibson  all  acted  admirably.  Miss  Marion 
Thomas  was  charming  as  the  coquette  and  so 
was  sweet  simplicity,  Miss  Eastman,  while  the 
finished  acting  of  Miss  Tisdel,  now  the  Bar- 
oness de  Wollant,  was  a  rare  treat. 

The  patronesses  were  Mrs.  Harrison,  Mrs. 
McKee,  Mesdames  Morton,  Foster,  Elkins, 
Wanamaker,  Noble,  Rusk,  Field,  Harlan, 
Brown,  Scofield,  Sheridan,  Ramsay,  Stanford, 
Hammond,  Kaufman,  Haywood,  Henderson, 
Outhwaite,  Cable,  Leiter,  Riggs,  Carpenter, 
Cabell,  Hay,  Calderon,  Carlisle,  Madame 
Romero  and  the  Countess  Maximillian  Es- 
terhazy. 

There  were  many  beauties  in  the  audience 
as  well  as  on  the  stage,  among  them  was 
Miss  May  Cuyler,  daughter  of  Captain  Cuy- 


WASHINGTON    AND    NEW    YORK.  IOI 

ler,  of  the  Army;  she  is  now  Lady  Grey 
Edgerton,  and  is  considered  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  women  in  England. 

This  charming  entertainment  added  $535.00 
to  the  fund. 

Mrs.  James  Fairman,  of  New  York,  under 
the  auspices  of  the  New  York  City  Chapter, 
D.  A.  R.,  sent  $37.00  very  soon  afterwards, 
the  proceeds  of  a  concert  given  in  New  York 
by  the  Spanish  Students,  the  Chickering  Male 
Quartette  and  other  artists.  A  poem  on 
Mary  Washington,  by  Colonel  James  Fair- 
man, was  written  for  this  occasion. 

On  March  3ist,  a  matinee  was  given  at 
the  Lyceum  Theatre,  New  York,  under  the 
patronage  of  Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor  and  the 
New  York  City  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution. 

The  "Duchess  of  Baywater,"  a  most  amus- 
ing farce,  was  admirably  rendered  by  Mrs. 
Charles  Avery  Doremus  in  the  title  role, 
supported  by  Miss  Ward,  Mr.  James  K. 
Hackett,  Mr.  Arthur  Doremus,  Mr.  West 
and  Miss  Chapman.  "Love  in  '76"  followed 
with  Mrs.  Wilbur  Bloodgood  as  Rose  Ells- 
worth in  a  dainty  colonial  costume,  assisted 


IO2  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

by  Mrs.  Wood  and  Messrs.  Lindsay,  Bird, 
Hull,  Curtis  and  others. 

The  theatre  was  beautifully  decorated  with 
banners  and  flags  lent  to  Mrs.  Pryor  by  the 
Secretary  of  the  Navy,  accompanied  by  a 
courteous  letter  written  by  the  chief  of  the 
Bureau,  George  Dewey. 

Among  the  ladies  present  were  Mrs.  J. 
Burrows  Greene,  the  daughter  of  Silas  Bur- 
rows, the  generous  donor  of  the  original 
monument;  Mrs.  Donald  McLean,  Mrs. 
Ogden  Doremus  and  Madame  Adalina  Patti 
Nicolini.  The  latter  received  an  ovation 
when  she  appeared  in  her  box.  Mrs.  Pryor, 
the  originator  of  the  entertainment,  was  also 
warmly  welcomed.  Upwards  of  $500  were 
cleared  by  this  entertainment.  After  the 
matinee  it  was  decided  to  present  two  silver 
medals  to  Mrs.  Charles  Avery  Doremus  and 
Mrs.  Wilbur  Bloodgood. 

On  March  31,  a  special  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  was  held  when  Mrs. 
Waite  submitted  a  letter  from  Marion  Har- 
land,  offering  to  write  a  biographical  sketch 
of  Mary,  the  mother  of  George  Washington, 
the  copyright  to  be  transferred  to  the 


WASHINGTON    AND    NEW    YORK.          1 03 

National  Mary  Washington  Memorial  Asso- 
ciation for  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars. 
The  offer  was  accepted  unanimously.  "The 
Story  of  Mary  Washington"  was  issued  in 
the  Autumn. 

Mrs.  Terhune  spent  many  months  in  Fred- 
ericksburg  collecting  every  tradition  of  Mary 
Washington  from  those  who  heard  it  direct 
from  their  parents,  grandparents,  and  all 
who  remembered  the  dear  "Old  Madame" 
as  she  was  affectionately  called.  When  the 
Secretary  wrote  telling  how  she  had  enjoyed 
the  little  volume,  the  author  responded:  "I 
have  so  lived  with  the  heroine  of  the  'story' 
for  the  last  year  that  she  seems  like  my  inti- 
mate and  familiar  friend,  and  praise  of  her  is 
sweet." 

In  the  spring  of  1892,  Mrs.  Pryor  wrote  a 
very  interesting  sketch  of  Mary  Washington 
for  the  Home  Journal.  The  Century,  also 
published  an  article  entitled:  "The  Mother 
and  Birthplace  of  Washington,"  by  Ella  Bas- 
sett  Washington,  widow  of  Lewis  Wiiliam 
Washington,  oi  West  Virginia,  the  father  of 
Mrs.  Keyser,  the  Vice-President  for  Mary- 
land. Mrs.  Washington  not  only  married  a 


IO4  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

descendant  of  Mary  Washington,  but  she  was 
herself  her  descendant,  being  the  great 
granddaughter  of  Betty  Lewis.  Her  article 
is  most  interesting,  being  full  of  family  tra- 
ditions, and  of  reminiscences  of  her  great 
ancestress,  as  told  by  her  father,  and  her 
grandfather,  Robert  Lewis,  the  boy  who  met 
Lafayette  in  the  garden  where  his  grand- 
mother was  tending  her  flowers,  the  young 
man  who  was  present  when  the  General 
received  the  news  of  his  mother's  death. 

Mrs.  Washington's  article  concludes  with 
a  beautiful  tribute  to  the  Mary  Washington 
Association.  She  was  the  Mount  Vernon 
Vice-Regent  for  West  Virginia.  The  Mary 
Washington  Association  had  to  thank  the 
ladies  of  the  Mount  Vernon  Association  for 
much  kind  interest  and  advice.  One  of  the 
Vice-Regents,  Mrs.  Hearst  of  California,  is 
also  Vice-President  of  the  Mary  Washington 
Association  for  her  State.  Mrs.  Ball  of 
Virginia,  and  Mrs.  Barnes  of  the  District  of 
Columbia,  have  shown  great  interest  and 
have  been  very  helpful. 

In  May,  the  Mary  Washington  Chapter  ol 
the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution, 


WASHINGTON    AND    NEW    YORK.  1 05 

the  first  Chapter  organized  in  Washington 
City,  and  the  mother  of  many  Chapters,  all 
over  the  country,  gave  a  lecture  in  honor  of 
their  "Patron  Saint."  The  lecturer  was  Miss 
Janet  Richards,  then  Recording  Secretary  of 
the  chapter;  the  subject  was:  "The  Passion 
Play  at  Ober-Ammergau."  Miss  Richards' 
gifts  as  a  lecturer  are  well  known,  and  of 
course  the  entertainment  was  a  great  success. 
Eighty  dollars  were  sent  to  the  Treasurer  by 
the  Regent  of  the  Chapter,  Mrs.  Admiral 
Lee,  who  was  also  Vice-President  of  the 
Mary  Washington  Board  of  Directors,  and 
later  President  of  the  Hereditary  Life  Mem- 
bers. 

During  the  summer  of  1892  Mrs.  Waite 
spent  much  time  and  travel  in  search  of  a 
design  for  a  monument.  She  examined  many 
monuments,  consulting  the  best  artists  within 
reach,  and  she  finally  selected  three  designs 
to  be  submitted  to  the  Board  of  Directors  for 
a  choice,  should  any  among  them  prove  satis- 
factory. The  three  designs,  one  from  a  New 
York  firm,  one  from  Manning  of  Washington, 
and  one  from  Crawford  of  Buffalo,  were  care- 
fully examined  and  discussed,  and  that  of 
Crawford  unanimously  preferred. 


IO6  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

The  President  and  Secretary  visited  Fred- 
ericksburg  in  October,  viewed  the  ground 
and  consulted  with  the  ladies  of  the  Fred- 
ericksburg  Association. 

In  December,  1892,  the  contract  for  the 
monument  was  signed  between  the  National 
Mary  Washington  Association  and  John 
Crawford  &  Son,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 


MRS,  M.  V.  MACON. 
Vice-President  of  Colorado. 


CHAPTER  XVII. 

VALENTINE    NIGHT    IN    DENVER. 

ON  February  i4th,  1893,  the  Mary  Wash- 
ington Association  of  Colorado,  under  its 
invaluable  and  indefatigable  Vice- President, 
Mrs.  Thomas  Macon,  gave  a  Colonial  ball  in 
the  Brown  Palace  Hotel,  Denver.  The 
Denver  reporter  thus  describes  it: 

"  The  grand  colonial  ball  at  the  Palace  last  night 
was  the  most  brilliant  social  event  in  the  history  of 
the  western  half  of  the  western  hemisphere.  It 
were  strange  if  the  names  of  the  patronesses  of  this 
event  in  aid  of  the  National  Mary  Washington  As- 
sociation, led  by  those  gracious  ladies,  the  wives  01 
gentlemen  whom  Colorado  has  honoured  with  its 
chief  executive  chair,  Mesdames  Waite,  Routt, 
Cooper  and  Grant,  had  not  stamped  the  occasion  as 
one  of  the  very  highest  social  order;  but  to  this 
was  added  the  largest  and  most  dazzling  array  of 
the  elite  of  Denver  citizenship  ever  attracted  to  one 
gathering  of  fashion  and  beauty. 

"  Over  1000  ladies  and  gentlemen  thronged  the 
magnificant  parlours,  balconies,  rotunda  and  banquet 
hall  of  the  fine  st  hotel  on  the  continent.  The  music 
(107) 


IO8  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

the  perfume,  the  flowers  and  the  bewildering  beauty 
of  feminine  loveliness  and  exquisite  costumes,  de- 
signed by  the  modistes  of  the  two  continents,  com- 
bined to  form  a  pictnre  rarely  equalled  and  never 
surpassed  even  in  the  greatest  cities  of  the  new 
world. 

"  It  was  fitting  that  in  Denver,  the  youngest  and 
fairest  of  the  cities  of  the  land  of  liberty,  the  memory 
of  her  who  gave  to  the  world  its  grandest  character 
should  be  so  splendidly  honoured.  *  *  * 

"  The  remark  of  a  Denver  lady  will  become  one 
of  the  heritages  of  the  nation's  treasure  of  lofty 
sentiment,  when  she  said  that  the  object  of  the  As- 
sociation is  'a  lofty  impulse  which  prompts  the 
women  of  America  to  buy  this  ground  for  their 
very  own,  that  the  deed  of  transfer  may  be  forever 
inviolable.' 

"The  magnificant  hotel  was  ablaze  with  light, 
warmth  and  radiance  of  colour.  From  the  topmost 
tier  of  the  balconies  to  the  spacious  rotunda,  1 30 
feet  beneath,  all  was  a  moving  panorama  of  beauty. 
St.  Valentine's  Day  in  the  Columbian  year  was 
strikingly  perpetuated  for  all  time  as  the  occasion 
of  an  event  unapproached  even  by  the  most  elabo- 
rate of  society's  triumphs." 

In  the  parlors  on  the  second  floor  a  court 
reception  was  held.  Governor  and  Mrs. 
Waite  with  the  Governor's  staff  in  full  uni 


VALENTINE    NIGHT   IN    DENVER. 

form,  and  officers  from  Fort  Logan  received 
gentlemen  with  powdered  hair  and  full  cos- 
tume and  ladies  with  coronets  of  snowy 
tresses  and  gowns  of  Colonial  aad  Parisian 
fashion. 

The  dancing  took  place  in  the  grand 
rotunda  with  its  walls  of  onyx  and  its  floors 
of  marble.  As  the  dancers  appeared  for  the 
majestic  polonaise  and  the  minuet  the  scene 
was  most  brilliant;  the  nine  balconies  and 
the  winding  stairways  were  crowded  with 
thousands  of  spectators  all  unconscious  that 
they  themselves  in  their  old  time  costumes 
were  a  part  of  the  wonderful  picture. 

Among  the  many  magnificent  costumes 
none  attracted  more  attention  than  the  gown 
worn  by  Miss  May  Patrick.  It  was  truly  a 
colonial  production,  and  it  had  adorned  the 
ladies  of  Miss  Patrick's  family  for  over  a 
hundred  years.  An  ashes  ol  roses  silk 
trimmed  with  navy  blue,  with  full  skirts, 
puffed  elbow  sleeves  and  low  corsage  edged 
with  rich  old  point  applique.  It  was  doubt- 
less the  most  ancient  costume  ever  worn  in 
the  West. 

Miss    Nancy    Craig   Green,  of  Culpeper, 


IIO  BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 

Va.,  a  great  grand  niece  of  Mary  Washing- 
ton, was  one  of  the  belles  of  the  ball.  She 
wore  a  white  silk  with  moss  green  embroid- 
eries, an  heirloom  of  colonial  days  that  had 
belonged  to  her  ancestress,  Hannah  Ball, 
sister  of  Mary. 

The  banquet  was  as  unique  as  the  rest  ol 
the  ball.  The  tables  groaned  beneath  a 
veritable  colonial  menu;  discovered  by  Marion 
Harland  in  an  old  i8th  century  recipe 
book,  and  copied  into  her  colonial  novel 
"His  Great  Self."  Roasted  shoats,  huge 
turkeys,  beaten  biscuit,  hot  waffles,  old 
fashioned  cake  and  other  old  Virginia  deli- 
cacies. 

The  flowers  decorated  the  tables  in  such 
profusion  that  the  supper  table  seemed 
almost  like  a  conservatory.  The  principal 
decoration  was  a  representation  of  the  peace 
ball  at  Fredericksburg.  The  miniature  build- 
ing, four  feet  square,  was  in  the  form  of  a 
Court  House  with  a  statue  of  Justice  sur- 
mounting the  dome.  The  figures,  42  in  num- 
ber, were  six  inches  in  height.  General 
Washington  with  his  mother  on  his  arm  was 
represented  walking  down  the  centre  of  the 


VALENTINE    NIGHT   IN    DENVER.  Ill 

mall  room  while  the  guests  stood  on  each 
side  with  their  heads  bowed  in  reverence.  A 
cluster  of  arcs  of  electric  light  hung  from  the 
dome  and  tiny  columns  adorned  with  minia- 
ture electric  lights  surrounded  the  building 
which  stood  on  a  flowery  embankment  bor- 
dered with  tulips  and  chrysanthemums. 

$1,030  were  sent  to  the  Secretary  as  the 
receipts  trom  this  beautiful  ball,  the  result  of 
the  untiring  and  devoted  work  of  Mrs.  Macon. 
She  not  only  superintended  all  the  arrange- 
ments, but  she  worked  with  her  pen  and  her 
brain  towards  perfecting  them.  She  wrote 
numberless  articles  for  the  daily  press  all 
over  Colorado,  and  secured  reduced  rates  on 
the  trains  which  brought  hundreds  of  guests 
from  the  neighboring  towns.  She  was 
greatly  aided  by  Mrs.  Hedges  and  Mrs. 
Arbuckle,  of  Denver,  and  Mrs.  M.  D. 
Thatcher,  of  Pueblo,  all  Hereditary  Life 
Members  of  the  Association;  but  Mrs.  Macon 
was  the  life  and  soul  of  the  movement,  and 
it  seemed  impossible  that  one  brain  and  one 
body  could  have  accomplished  so  much. 

As  has  been  before  stated  the  patronesses 
of  the  ball  who  contributed  greatly  to  the 


112  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

prestige  of  the  occasion  were  the  wives  of 
four  Colorado  Governors:  Mrs.  Waite,  Mrs. 
Routt,  Mrs.  Cooper  and  Mrs.  Grant. 


CHAPTER  XVIII. 

WORK    IN    MANY   STATES. 

Miss  MARY  DESHA,  when  Vice-President 
for  Kentucky,  aroused  much  interest  in  that 
State.  Several  Hereditary  Life  Members 
were  enlisted  and  a  liberal  donation  was  sent 
by  the  John  Marshall  Chapter  of  Louisville, 
the  proceeds  of  a  lecture  given  by  Senator 
Lindsay  at  the  house  of  the  Regent,  Mrs. 
Sallie  Marshall  Ewing  Pope.  Mrs.  Lindsay 
is  now  Vice-President  for  Kentucky,  Miss 
Desha  having  resigned  on  account  of  being 
too  far  from  Kentucky.  She  is  now  one  of 
the  Vice-Presidents-at-Large. 

Mrs.  Mary  B.  K.  Washington,  the  Vice- 
President  for  Tennessee,  has  also  done  ex- 
cellent work.  She  has  enlisted  many  Heredi- 
tary Life  Members,  among  them  Mrs.  Van 
Leer  Kirkman,  the  President  of  the  Atlanta 
Exposition. 

Mrs.  McPherson,  the  first  Vice-President 
for  New  Jersey,  raised  $400  the  first  year 
and  continued  very  active  and  efficient  until 
8  (H3) 


114  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

obliged  by  ill  health  to  go  to  Europe.  She 
then  resigned  and  Mrs.  Margaret  Herbert 
Mather  was  appointed  her  successor.  Mrs. 
Mather  worked  faithfully,  with  good  results, 
until  obliged  by  ill  health  to  cease  work. 
Both  these  ladies  have  passed  away  within 
the  past  year. 

Mrs.  Dolph,  of  Oregon,  and  Mrs.  Squire, 
of  Washington  State,  have  done  excellent 
work  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  They  have  each 
raised  not  less  than  four  hundred  dollars. 
The  Mary  Bell  Chapter  of  Tacoma  and  the 
Rainier  Chapter  of  Seattle  have  sent  dona- 
tions. 

California,  in  addition  to  the  work  done  by 
Mrs.  Hearst  and  her  able  assistants,  has  sent 
many  donations  through  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution.  Mrs.  Maddox,  for 
many  years  State  Regent,  is  a  Hereditary 
Life  Member.  The  Sequoia  Chapter  has 
done  much,  through  the  earnest  efforts  of 
Mrs.  S.  Isabelle  Hubbard,  of  San  Francisco, 
who  has  had  the  Mary  Washington  medal 
conferred  upon  her  by  the  Valentine  Holt 
Society  of  the  Children  of  the  American  Rev- 
olution, of  which  Society  she  is  President. 


MRS.  AUGUSTA  M.  DOLPH. 
Vice-President  of  Oregon. 


WORK    IN    MANY    STATES.  I  1 5 

Mrs.  Newport,  the  Vice-President  for  Min- 
nesota, is  an  earnest  and  faithful  worker,  and 
has  enrolled  among  the  H.  L.  M.'s  some  of 
the  most  distinguished  and  popular  women 
of  her  State. 

Mrs.  Lipscomb,  the  Vice-President  for 
Georgia,  has  raised  several  hundred  dollars 
among  the  Georgia  Chapters. 

The  Rhode  Island  Chapters,  through  their 
Vice-President,  Mrs.  Wilbour,  and  their  State 
Regent,  Miss  Knight,  have  contributed  gen- 
erously. The  Gaspee  Chapter  of  Providence 
holds  a  Hereditary  Life  Membership. 

The  Vice-President  for  Ohio,  Mrs.  D. 
Meade  Massie,  has  enlisted  several  Heredi- 
tary Life  Members,  among  them  Mrs.  Lucre- 
tia  R.  Garfield.  Excellent  work  has  been 
done  in  the  Cincinnati  Chapter,  principally 
through  the  influence  of  their  Regent,  Mrs. 
Brent  Arnold,  and  the  efforts  of  Mrs.  Judge 
Conner.  Some  of  the  leading  women  of 
Cincinnati  have  joined,  among  them  :  Mrs. 
Thomas,  Mrs.  Greeve,  Miss  Laws,  Miss 
Harrison,  Mrs.  Hinkle,  Miss  Doane,  Mrs. 
Hulbert  and  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Perin.  Mrs. 
Emery,  of  Cincinnati,  has  also  become  an 


I  1 6  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Hereditary  Life  Member  through  Mrs.  Waite. 

Mrs.  Clifton  R.  Breckenridge,  Vice-Presi- 
dent for  Arkansas  and  one  of  the  first  Vice- 
Presidents  to  serve,  did  faithful  service  in  her 
State  and  elsewhere  until  her  departure  for 
Russia.  She  was  the  second  Ambassador's 
wife  to  wear  the  Mary  Washington  star  at  a 
foreign  Court.  Mrs.  Theodore  D.  Runyon 
being  the  first  and  Mrs.  Charlemagne  Tower, 
Jr.,  the  third. 

In  April,  1893,  Miss  Waite  wrote  to  Mrs. 
Thomas  W.  Palmer,  of  Detroit,  asking  her  to 
be  the  Vice- President  for  Michigan.  Mrs. 
Palmer  accepted,  and  in  spite  of  ill  health 
went  resolutely  to  work  in  her  State.  Not- 
withstanding the  hard  times  and  discouraging 
responses  from  many  towns  in  the  State, 
Mrs.  Palmer  succeeded  in  contributing  over 
$300  in  a  few  months,  $100  being  her  own 
donation.  Mrs.  Whittier,  of  Saginaw,  gave  a 
beautiful  colonial  ball,  and  a  handsome  and 
successful  entertainment  was  given  at  Grand 
Rapids  by  Mrs.  Pantlind;  but  prairie  fires 
and  storms,  with  the  increasing  financial  de- 
pression of  that  time,  added  to  the  continued 
ill  health  of  Mrs.  Palmer  compelled  her  to 
discontinue  her  work  for  a  time. 


MRS-  ABRAHAM  LANSING. 
(NEE  CATHERINE  GANSVOORT.) 

Vice-President  of  New  York. 


WORK    IN    MANY   STATES.  Il7 

It  is  impossible  to  do  full  justice  to  the 
work  done  in  New  York.  Mrs.  Pryor  as 
Vice-President  at  Large,  the  New  York  City 
Chapter  under  the  efficient  and  untiring 
chairmanship  of  Mrs.  Fairman,  and  to  Mrs. 
Lansing  the  State  Vice-President.  The  fol- 
lowing extract  from  an  appeal  published  in 
the  Albany  Argus  for  June  15,  1893,  will 
show  not  only  the  spirit  that  actuated  the 
Vice-President,  but  how  she  awakened  that 
spirit  in  others: 


"  I  appeal  to  you  without  hesitation  to  enroll 
your  names  among  those  who,  for  love  of  country, 
the  credit  of  our  State  and  the  honour  of  our  sex, 
shall  give  their  aid,  and  at  least  the  influence  of 
their  names  and  examples  to  a  cause  sacred  of  itself 
and  peculiarly  your  own,  through  the  method  in 
which  it  is  to  be  carried  through. 

"Your  contributions  will  not  certainly  in  the 
sense  that  they  will  minister  to  any  physical  need 
or  misfortune  be  called  a  charity,  but  that  they  will 
be  for  a  purpose  educational  and  beneficial  in  the 
highest  degree,  it  does  not  seem  to  me  rational  to 
question.  To  suggest  that  such  an  undertaking  is 
not  practical,  or  is  unnecessary  or  unworthy  be- 
cause it  will  minister  to  a  sentiment  and  not  to 


Il8  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

a  physical  want,  is  surely  to  repudiate  the  influence 
of  the  example  of  lofty  character  and  noble  deeds 
in  shaping  the  civilization  of  our  race. 

"  The  design  of  the  monument  has  been  chosen: 
Most  appropriately  as  it  seems  to  me,  it  will  be  in 
the  form  of  an  obelisk.  My  hope  is  that  the  women 
of  America  will  be  moved  to  build  it  well  and  to 
provide  for  its  constant  and  tender  care;  not  only 
thereby  to  preserve  the  memory  of  the  life  which  it 
will  commemorate,  but  to  testify  continually  to  the 
world  that  the  worth  of  that  life  and  the  value  of  its 
services  to  our  country,  so  long  and  shamelessly 
ignored,  are  decorously  recognized  and  publicly 
proclaimed. 

"  On  the  spot  which  was  chosen  for  her  last  rest- 
ing placs  by  the  noble  woman  whose  life  it  will 
typify,  rising  in  that  severe  and  unassailable  form  of 
Egyptian  art,  which  has  been  the  admiration  and 
wonder  of  the  ages,  may  it  silently  and  eloquently 
declare  the  grandeur  and  simplicity  of  the  character 
of  Washington,  and  testify  to  the  devotion  and  in- 
spired love  which  moulded  that  character  into  its 
marvellous  symmetry  and  strength. 
"  Yours  very  truly, 

"  CATHERINE  GANSEVOORT  LANSING, 
"Vice-President  for  New  York  State  N.  M.  W.  M.  A." 


MRS.  EDWARD  ROBY. 
(NEE  LILIA  P.  GOSTER.) 
Vice-President  at  Large. 


CHAPTER  XIX. 

AT  THE  WORLD'S  FAIR. 

MR.  CRAWFORD,  the  architect  of  the  Mary 
Washington  Monument  prepared  a  beautiful 
model  of  the  monument  in  white  marble,  five 
feet  high,  to  be  exhibited  at  the  World's  Fair. 

It  was  first  placed  in  the  Woman's  Depart- 
ment, but  through  the  courtesy  of  Mrs.  Beale, 
the  Commissioner  in  charge  of  the  Virginia 
Exhibit,  it  was  afterwards  removed  to  the 
Mount  Vernon  building,  at  the  suggestion  ot 
Miss  Desha,  aided  by  the  untiring  energy 
and  boundless  generosity  of  Mrs.  Edward 
Roby  of  Chicago.  There  was  inaugurated  a 
series  of  afternoon  teas  which  became  one  ol 
the  pleasantest  features  of  the  great  expo- 
sition ;  a  daily  social  gathering  welcomed  by 
Mrs.  Trumbull,  the  Vice-President  for  Illinois. 

In  October,  a  brilliant  colonial  reception 
was  held  in  the  New  York  State  building. 
It  is  thus  described  in  the  Chicago  Herald  of 
October  25th: 


I2O  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

"  New  York's  gem  banquet  hall  was  the  centre 
of  the  scene.  It  was  hung  with  wreaths  and 
slashes  of  green  oak  boughs,  splendid  symbols  of 
the  sterling  courage  and  unwavering  heart  of  the 
great  character  honoured.  These  same  emblems 
were  wound  in  gorgeous  lavishness  around  the 
pillars  and  up  and  down  the  stairway.  All  the 
parlours  were  similarly  adorned,  and  every  niche 
and  corner  was  bright  with  wide  palms  and  flowers. 
The  red  boxes  were  half  hidden  in  blossoms  and 
everywhere  the  guests  in  elaborate  raiment  were 
sheltered  by  great  leaves  from  the  tropics. 

"  Under  festoons  the  guests  entered,  to  be  wel- 
comed by  the  receiving  party.  Mrs.  Isabella 
Beecher  Hooker  stood  at  the  head  of  this  row  and 
she  looked  as  if  she  had  just  stepped  from  a  colon- 
ial portrait.  She  wore  a  quaint  cap  and  flounces 
and  furbelows  of  great  dimensions,  with  sleeves  like 
angel's  wings.  By  her  side  were  a  dozen  others 
dressed  as  Mary  Washington  might  have  been  for 
such  a  function. 

"  Down  the  line  were  Mrs.  Oglesby,  the  Countess 
di  Brazzi,  Mrs.  Lyman  Trumbull,  Mrs.  A.  S. 
Shepard,  Mrs.  Starkweather,  Mrs.  Robert  L.  Henry, 
Mrs.  Jonas  Hutchinson,  Mrs.  Ida  Preston  Gibson, 
Mrs.  Florence  Ives  and  Miss  Minor." 

«*  *  *  Music  filled  the  building.  The  half 
hundred  musicians  of  Professor  Hecker's  Elgin 
band  opened  with  a  classic  overture  and  then 


AT   THE    WORLD  S    FAIR.  I  2  I 

marched  the  arrivals  up  the  broad  stairway  in  step 
to  a  Wagner  selection. 

•'  When  the  guests  had  filled  the  upper  parlors, 
the  dance  programme  began  with  a  grand  entree. 
This  was  a  charming  sight,  the  long  line  resembling 
some  picture  of  an  ancient  knight's  banquet  proces- 
sion. *  *  *  Hon.  Lyman  Trumbull  and  Mrs. 
Trumbull  were  assigned  the  places  of  honor.  *  *  * 
Around  and  around  the  hall  the  line  wound,  with 
spectators  about  the  edge.  Every  inch  of  the  boxes 
were  occupied,  and  those  who  could  not  get  more 
favored  points  looked  in  from  the  halls  and  adjoin- 
ing rooms. 

"  Lunchon  was  served  in  the  parlors.  Upstairs 
the  members  of  the  Association  waited  at  dainty 
tables  and  below,  curious  robed  people  from  the 
Orient  did  the  honors.  In  the  three  west  rooms 
native  khitmutgars  in  red  fezzes  and  redder  blouses 
poured  Indian  tea,  and  across  the  way  the  dainty 
Ceylonese  chatted  over  fragrant  cups  and  lear  ied 
their  first  lesson  of  Mary  Washington  from  inter- 
ested groups." 

Among  the  many  beauties  that  graced  that 
sumptuous  hall,  none  attracted  more  attention 
than  little  Alma  Trumbull,  a  lovely  child  of 
ten  years,  looking  like  a  real  little  Daughter 
of  the  Revolution  in  her  beautiful  pink  bro- 
cade ;  the  court  train  fell  from  the  shoulders 


122  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

and  the  sweet,  bright  face  of  the  child  was  a 
picture  of  delight  at  the  splendid  scene  and 
her  innocent  enjoyment  of  her  own  pretty 
costume.  This  fair,  sweet  flower  was  doomed 
to  fade  before  blossoming  into  womanhood. 
Less  than  two  years  after  that  reception,  the 
dear  little  girl  was  seized  with  diphtheria  and 
passed  away  in  a  few  hours ;  the  only  child 
of  her  heart-broken  mother  and  the  joy  of  her 
distinguished  father's  advanced  years. 

During  the  summer  the  star  of  the  Heredi- 
tary Life  Member  was  presented  to  the 
Duchess  de  Veragua  and  also  to  the  Infanta 
Eulalia.  This  graceful  tribute  to  the  lady 
guests  of  the  Nation,  representing  the  families 
of  Columbus  and  of  Queen  Isabella  I.,  was 
suggested  by  Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor.  At  Mrs. 
Pryor's  suggestion,  the  medal  was  presented 
to  the  Duchess  by  Mrs.  Mitchell,  of  Florida. 

The  result  of  the  work  at  the  World's  Fair 
was  to  make  Illinois  the  banner  State  in  place 
of  Colorado.  Louisiana  succeeded  Vermont 
and  South  Carolina  and  held  it  until  Mrs. 
Hearst  sent  in  her  contribution  from  Cali- 
fornia, who  held  the  first  place  until  the  Val- 
entine ball  at  Denver  placed  Colorado  in  the 
lead. 


CHAPTER  XX. 

HON.  FRANK  HATTON. 

THE  perfect  enthusiasm  and  enjoyment  of 
the  dedication  of  the  Mary  Washington 
Monument,  was  marred  by  a  great  sorrow; 
the  death  on  April  3oth  of  Hon.  Frank  Hat- 
ton,  the  Editor  of  the  Washington  Post,  the 
constant,  unfailing  friend  and  worker  for  the 
cause. 

We  have  told  how  his  indignant  protest 
against  the  advertisement  for  the  sale  of 
Mary  Washington's  grave  roused  Mrs.  Het- 
zel  to  suggest  that  the  monument  should  be 
built  by  the  women  of  the  United  States. 
We  have  also  told  how  promptly  he  re- 
sponded, and  how  he  assisted  and  promoted 
the  idea;  how  he  devoted  one  column  of  his 
paper  for  many  months  to  Mary  Washing- 
ton, and  opened  it  to  subscriptions  and  con- 
tributions, the  Washington  Post  giving  $200 ; 
but  it  is  impossible  to  do  full  justice  to  his 
unwearied  and  unfailing  assistance  from  the 
first  suggestion  until  the  completion  of  the 
(123) 


124  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

monument.  Through  him  Mr.  George  W. 
Childs  sent  his  donation  of  five  hundred  dol- 
lars. He  also  obtained  a  donation  from  Mrs. 
Jeannette  M.  Thurber,  whose  name  is  en- 
rolled among  the  Hereditary  Life  Members, 
and  the  aid  he  gave  through  the  columns  of 
the  Post  never  flagged. 

He  had  been  selected  by  the  other  mem- 
bers of  the  Board  of  Directors  to  represent 
the  ladies  of  the  National  Mary  Washington 
Association  at  the  banquet  at  Fredericks- 
burg.  He  also  assisted  in  planning  the 
arrangements  contributing  thereby  to  the 
admirable  system  which  made  the  Dedication 
so  complete  and  excellent  in  every  respect. 

But  the  eloquent  voice  was  stilled;  the 
handsome  face  and  commanding  form  were 
missing,  and  the  ceremonies  were  saddened 
by  the  memory  of  the  absent  friend  and  the 
sight  of  the  vacant  chair. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  National  Mary  Wash- 
ington Memorial  Association  on  Saturday, 
May  5th,  the  following  resolutions  were 
placed  on  the  files  of  the  society  records : 

WHEREAS,  by  death  Frank  Hatton  has  been  re- 
moved from  the  sphere  of  his  earthly  activity  and 
usefulness;  and 


HON.    FRANK    HATTON.  125 

WHEREAS,  the  National  Mary  Washington  Mem- 
orial Association  recognize  with  peculiar  feelings  of 
gratitude  the  services  rendered  by  him;  therefore 
be  it 

Resolved,  that  in  the  death  of  Mr.  Hatton  the 
community  has  sustained  a  severe  loss;  that  this 
Association  does  here  record  its  deep  appreciation 
and  remberance  of  the  aid,  the  sympathy  and  the 
valued  encouragement  always  met  with  at  his  hand  ; 
and  it  is  hereby  ordered  that  this  resolution  be 
spread  upon  the  minutes  of  the  board  and  made 
part  of  the  history  which  deceased  did  so  much  to 
dignify  and  embellish. 

AMELIA  C.  WAITE,  President. 
MARGARETTA  HETZEL,  Secretary. 

The  fame  of  Frank  Hatton, belongs  to  his 
Country.  His  career  as  a  Cabinet  officer  as 
a  literary  man  as  a  patriot*  and  a  philanthro- 
pist will  live  after  him.  The  Mary  Washing- 
ton Monument  was  but  one  of  the  many 
noble  objects  to  which  he  devoted  his  invalu- 
able time  and  energies.  It  was  his  last  great 
work  and  he  lived  to  see  the  shaft  completed. 


CHAPTER  XXI. 

THE    NEW    MONUMENT. 

During  the  spring  of  1 893  the  Incorporators 
of  the  National  Mary  Washington  Association 
submitted  the  design  of  the  monument  to  the 
Trustees;  President  Cleveland,  Chief  Justice 
Fuller  and  Governor  McKinney;  who  all  pro- 
nounced "  it  artistically  and  architecturally 
correct,  harmonious  and  pleasing,  and  in  so- 
lidity and  simplicity  especially  appropriate  to 
the  character  ajid  life  of  the  woman  it  was  de- 
igned to  honor."  Objections  had  been  raised 
in  some  quarters-  to  the  simple  form  of  the 
obelisk,  and  some  of  the  old  citizens  of  Fred- 
ericksburg  were  loth  to  have  the  old  monu- 
ment removed,  associated  as  it  was  with  the 
memories  and  traditions  of  their  youth;  but 
it  was  impossidle  to  make  a  firm  and  endur- 
ing monument  out  of  the  old  ruin  and  the 
first  and  continued  pledge  of  the  collectors  to 
the  contributors  was  that  a  firm  and  enduring 
monument  should  be  built. 

In  the  words  of  Mrs.  James  Power  Smith, 
(126) 


THE    NEW    MONUMENT.  127 

when  President  of  the  Fredericksburg  As- 
sociation in  a  letter  regarding  Mr.  Jack's 
offer  of  a  monument;  already  mentioned  in 
Chapter  VIII :  "  Mr.  Jack's  view  is  correct, 
that  the  old  monument  is  composed  of  too 
many  small  stones,  and  that  has  led  largely 
to  its  ruined  condition." 

On  October  2ist,  the  corner  stone  of  the 
new  monument  was  laid  by  the  Fredericks- 
burg  Mary  Washington  Association.  Mrs. 
Fleming,  the  President,  was  unable  to  be 
present  owing  to  a  severe  illness,  but  the 
other  officers  of  the  Association  were  all 
there,  with  many  of  the  members  and  a  large 
crowd  of  citizens.  None  of  the  National 
officers  were  present,  the  President  Mrs. 
Waite,  saying  that  she  thought  it  best  to 
defer  any  national  celebration  until  the  mon- 
ument was  completed. 

The  ceremonies  were  conducted  by  Rev.  W. 
Meade  Clark,  Rector  of  St.  George's  Church,  who 
was  made  custodian  of  the  tin  box  deposited  in  a 
cavity  cut  in  the  northeast  corner  of  one  of  the 
massive  granite  base  blocks.  He  placed  each 
article  in  the  box,  naming  it  as  he  did  so. 

The  following  is  a  list  of  the  articles : 

"The  Story  of  Mary  Washington,"  by  Marion 
Harland. 


128  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

"The  Fredericksburg  Daily  Star,"  of  October 
2  ist,  1893. 

"The  Fredericksburg  Free  Lance,"  of  October 
2  ist,  1893. 

Old  copper  cents  of  1 800,  and  half  cents  of  1 799, 
1800,  1 80 1  and  1806,  and  Columbia  half  dollar 
1807,  all  donated  by  F.  H.  Stonebraker. 

A  membership  card  of  the  Mary  Washington 
Association  of  Fredericksburg. 

One  ribbon  badge  of  the  National  Mary  Wash- 
ington Memorial  Association. 

One  piece  of  paper  in  which  Mary  Washington's 
will  was  folded,  and  scrap  of  paper  on  which  the 
original  will  was  written. 

One  set  of  Columbia  postage  stamps,  i  to  10 
cents. 

One  photograph  of  the  old  monument. 

"The  Home  Maker  Magazine,"  containing  article 
by  Rev.  James  Power  Smith. 

One  copy  on  parchment  of  the  records,  Constitu- 
tion and  Charter  of  the  Mary  Washington  Associa- 
tion of  Fredericksburg,  Va. 

One  copy  of  the  Incorporation  and  By-Laws  of 
the  National  Mary  Washington  Memorial  Associa- 
tion, Washington,  D.  C. 

One  copy  of  contract  between  the  National  Mary 
Washington  Memorial  Association  and  William  J. 
Crawford,  the  monnment  builder. 

One  copy  of  letter  from  George  W.  Shepherd, 


THE    NEW    MONUMENT.  1 29 

presenting  the  lot  of  land  to  the  Fredericksburg 
Association,  dated  January  24,  1890,  and  the  letter 
of  acceptance  from  Mrs.  James  Power  Smith,  first 
President  of  the  Fredericksburg  Association. 

One  silver  plate  from  the  old  monument  inscribed 
on  one  side :  "  Corner  Stone  of  the  Monument  over 
the  Remains  of  Washington's  mother  placed  7th 
May  1833."  On  the  reverse  side  of  this  old  plate 
the  following  is  inscribed :  "  This  plate  removed 
from  the  corner  stone  of  the  old  monument  October 
7th,  1893,  in  the  presence  of  Mrs.  V.  M.  Fleming, 
President,  and  Mrs.  J.  F.  Thompson,  Secretary." 

One  card  of  Rev.  W.  Meade  Clark,  who  placed 
the  box  in  the  corner  stone. 

Pictures  of  Mary  Washington's  house,  her  dress- 
ing room  and  sleeping  room. 

One  new  silver  plate  presented  by  William  J. 
Crawford,  contractor,  containing  the  names  of  the 
officers  of  both  Associations,  as  follows : 

On  one  side  of  the  silver  plate  : 

"  The  Mary  Washington  Monument  Association 
of  Fredericksburg,  Va. 

"  Mrs.  V.  M.  Fleming,  President 

"  Mrs.  J.  F.  Thompson,  Secretary. 

"Trustees:  Mrs.  Charles  Wallace,  Mrs.  T.  S. 
Duneway,  Mrs.  S.  W.  Carmichael,  Mrs.  William 
Bradley,  Mrs.  E.  Dorsey  Cole,  Miss  Irene  Colbert, 
Miss  Kate  Hurkamp,  Mrs.  Isaac  Hunt." 

On  the  other  side  of  the  plate  : 
9 


I3O  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

"  National  Mary  Washington  Memorial  Associa- 
tion. 

•'  Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Waite,  President. 

"  Mrs.  Margaret  Hetzel,  Secretary. 

"  Trustees : 

"  Hon.  Grover  Cleveland,  President  United  States. 

"  Hon.  Melville  W.I  Fuller,  Chief  Justice  United 
States. 

"  Hon.  Philip  W.  McKinney,  Governor  ot 
Virginia. 

On  December  21,  1893,  the  great  shaft 
was  placed  near  the  derrick  and  the  work  of 
elevating  it  on  the  plinth  was  begun.  During 
the  22d  it  was  slowly  raised  from  a  horizontal 
to  a  perpendicular  position,  and  at  4  o'clock 
p.  m.  it  was  placed  on  the  plinth. 

Mrs.  Waite  went  to  Fredericksburg  with 
her  daughter  to  witness  the  raising  of  the 
shaft,  and  from  the  windows  of  the  house 
opposite,  the  residence  of  Hon.  J.  Seymour 
White,  she  watched  every  movement  of  the 
work.  After  the  obelisk  was  securely  poised 
on  the  plinth,  she  accepted  the  monument  in 
the  name  of  the  National  Association. 

The  monument,  securely  boxed,  remained 
in  its  wooden  cover  over  Christmas  Day,  but 


THE   NEW    MONUMENT.  131 

it  was  unboxed  on  December  26th  and  thor- 
oughly cleaned ;  then  it  was  again  boxed  up 
to  remain  until  the  dedication,  which  it  was 
decided  should  take  place  in  the  month  of 
May,  the  month  endeared  to  the  Association 
by  many  anniversaries,  not  the  least  of  which 
was  the  laying  of  the  first  corner-stone  by 
President  Jackson. 


CHAPTER  XXII. 

REPORTS    AND    APPEALS. 

AT  the  annual  meeting  held  on  February 
24,  1894,  the  President  presented  the  follow- 
ing report: 

"  We  now  enter  upon  the  5th  year  of  active  work. 
In  previous  years  we  had  little  to  report  of  results. 
We  worked  hard  and  constantly,  but  it  took  a  long 
time  to  collect  the  amount  needed  before  we  could 
begin  the  real  work  of  contracting  for  and  directing 
a  monument  to  the  mother  of  Washington. 

"  Now,  we  come  before  you  prepared  to  show 
results.  Our  monument  to  Mary,  the  mother  of 
Washington,  has  been  put  up.  The  ground  around 
is  practically  graded  and  enclosed  by  a  fence  to 
protect  it  from  vandalism. 

"  The  monument  is  fifty  feet  high  and  comprises 
a  monolith  of  forty  feet,  standing  on  bases  and 
plinth  ten  feet  high.  The  lower  base  is  eleven  feet 
square.  The  whole  shaft  of  fifty  feet  is  of  Barre 
granite  and  the  finest  workmanship.  On  the  front 
of  the  plinth  are  the  words :  "  Mary  the  Mother  of 
Washington,"  and  on  the  reverse  side:  "  Erected  by 
her  Country- Women."  These  inscriptions  are  beau- 
tifully cut.  Mr.  Crawford,  the  designer  and  builder 

(132) 


REPORTS  AND  APPEALS.         133 

of  the  monument,  has  shown  a  truly  patriotic  spirit 
in  the  work,  putting  not  only  his  best  skill  but  his 
whole  heart  into  it 

"  We  have  resorted  to  various  methods  of  raising 
the  money;  some  have  succeeded  beyond  our  ex- 
pectations, others  have  resulted  in  disappointment. 
But  the  monument  is  now  paid  for,  $11,500.  The 
wrought-iron  fence  around  it,  twenty  feet  square  and 
six  feet  high,  with  stone  posts,  put  up  in  the  most 
substantial  manner,  is  also  paid  for.  This,  with  the 
cost  of  grading,  keeping  a  watchman,  and  the  other 
minor  expenses,  have  almost  exhausted  our  funds. 

"  We  must  now  put  a  fence  around  our  five  acres 
of  park,  build  a  gate-house  for  the  gardener  and 
custodian  of  the  grounds,  lay  out  and  improve  the 
park,  and  we  must  have  a  small  endowment  fund 
for  future  expenses.  Contributions  are  daily  coming 
in,  but  in  small  quantities,  owing  probably  to  the 
general  depression  in  business  and  the  needs  of  the 
unemployed.  We  are  very  grateful  for  all  contri- 
butions, but  we  must  emphasize  our  needs  for  more 
money  to  enable  us  to  entirely  complete  this  work 
and  hand  it  over  to  the  trustees  this  summer. 

[Signed]  "  AMELIA  C.  WAITE." 

The  Secretary  then  presented  a  concise 
History  and  an  appeal -to  the  Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution,  which  was  ap- 
proved by  the  Board  and  ordered  to  be 
printed  and  circulated. 


134  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

She  appealed  to  the  Daughters  as  an 
Honorary  Vice-President-General,  present  at 
the  organization,  when  the  motion  to  aid  in 
the  completion  of  the  Monument  to  the 
Mother  of  Washington,  was  passed  by  ac- 
clamation. She  alluded  to  the  work  already 
done  by  many  Chapters,  but  realizing  the 
growth  of  the  Society  of  the  Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution,  she  felt  it  her 
"official  duty"  to  bring  the  matter  before  all 
the  Chapters  throughout  the  country,  that 
every  Daughter  may  be  afforded  an  oppor- 
tunity to  add  her  mite  (though  it  may  be)  to 
redeem  the  noble  pledge  made  at  the  organ- 
ization of  our  great  Patriotic  Society  on 
October  1 1,  1890." 

The  Concise  History  contained  an  epitome 
of  what  has  already  been  told  in  these  pages, 
closing  with  the  following  eloquent  appeal  to 
the  Vice-Presidents : 

"  With  grateful  thanks  for  all  your  noble  work  in 
the  past,  and  trusting  that  you  will  be  able  to  still 
effectively  aid  us  in  the  good  cause,  I  remain, 

"  Respectfully  yours, 
[Signed]  "  MARGARET  HETZEL." 

Mrs.  Terhune  [Marion   Harland],  always 


REPORTS    AND    APPEALS.  135 

active  and  ready  to  aid  the  cause,  published 
in  the  Christian  Herald,  a  chapter  from  her 
"Story  of  Mary  Washington,"  which,  as  we 
already  know,  she  had  published  by  Hough- 
ton,  Mifflin  and  Co.  for  the  benefit  of  the 
National  Mary  Washington  Association.  To 
this  Chapter  she  added  a  foot  note  suggest- 
ing that  every  woman  and  child  in  the  coun- 
try bearing  the  name  of  Mary  should  give  25 
cents  to  the  monument,  leading  the  donation 
with  her  own  name,  Mary  Virginia  Terhune, 
which  was  followed  by  Miss  Mary  F.  Waite, 
who  also  issued  an  appeal  to  the  Mary's. 
The  responses  to  Mrs.  Terhune  and  Miss 
Waite  were  numerous,  and  the  Mary  Fund 
soon  reached  a  considerable  sum. 

Among  the  contributors  to  the  Mary  Fund 
was  the  Rev.  Dr.  Howison,  author  of  "The 
Student's  History  of  the  United  States,"  and 
also  of  the  standard  History  of  Virginia. 
Enclosing  a  donation  in  honor  of  his  mother, 
wife,  daughter  and  sister  he  paid  an  eloquent 
tribute  to  the  Mary  Washington  Association, 
saying  that  the  more  he  studied  the  life  and 
character  of  Washington,  the  more  he  was 
convinced  of  his  unequalled  grandeur  and 


136  BUILDING   OF   A    MONUMENT. 

purity,  and  of  his  mother's  influence  in 
moulding  that  character;  adding  that  the 
work  of  the  Mary  Washington  Association 
in  restoring  the  tomb  and  reviving  the  mem- 
ory of  this  noble  Virginia  mother  should 
merit  the  thanks  of  every  true  American. 


CHAPTER  XXIII. 

THE    DEDICATION. 

The  loth  of  May  1894,  an  ideal  spring  day 
with  a  cloudless  sky,  a  bright  sun  tempered 
by  a  refreshing  breeze,  was  the  day  that  drew 
visitors  from  all  over  the  country  to  honor 
the  mother  of  Washington. 

Governor  O'Ferrall  of  Virginia  had  issued 
an  eloquent  and  touching  proclamation  order- 
ing the  State  offices  in  Richmond  closed,  the 
flag  on  the  State  Capitol  placed  at  half  mast 
and  requesting  all  citizens  of  Virginia,  as  far 
as  possible  to  unite  in  reverencing  the  mem. 
ory  of  this  "  Good  Virginia  Mother." 

The  city  of  Fredericksburg  was  in  gala 
attire.  The  streets  were  a  mass  of  decora- 
tion: Americau  flags  side  by  side  with  the 
Virginia  State  banner:  continental  buff  and 
blue  streamed  side  by  side  with  the  red  white 
and  blue  and  the  red  and  gold  insignia  of  the 
Ball  family  which  floated  before  the  homes  of 
Mary  Ball's  descendants. 
(i37) 


138  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

"  Flags  of  some  sort  floated  from  every  housetop 
and  gable  window  and  thousands  of  little  flags 
waved  over  the  doorways  of  homes,  or  were  carried 
in  the  hands  of  the  younger  portions  of  the  com- 
munity." Often  little  flags,  or  the  union  shield 
with  the  Virginia  coat  of  arms  would  frame  a 
picture,  either  of  the  woman  who  was  that  day 
honored  or  of  her  immortal  son  or  of  Martha  his 
wife  or  of  some  other  Revolutionary  character  or 
event. 

"  One  of  the  most  noticeable  decorations  was  an 
old  tree  standing  on  a  corner  of  two  of  the  principal 
streets,  which  looked  as  if  it  might  have  been  seared 
by  the  terrible  iron  hail  of  nearly  a  third  of  a  century 
ago.  This  ancient  tree  was  wrapped  completely 
from  its  base,  far  up  among  its  branches  and  leaves, 
with  red  and  white  bunting  studded  with  blue  stars. 
The  contrast  of  the  bright  colors  of  the  bunting 
with  the  delicate  green  of  the  newly  opened  leaves 
was  not  only  picturesque  but  beautiful. 

At  10:20  the  special  train  from  Washing- 
ton arrived,  bringing  the  President,  the  Chief 
Justice,  members  of  the  Cabinet  and  other 
invited  guests,  with  the  ladies  of  the  National 
Mary  Washington  Association,  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution  and  the  Marine 
Band. 

The  Marine  Band  was  the  first  to  alight, 


THE    DEDICATION.  139 

and  lost  no  time  in  saluting  the  President  as 
he  drove  past  with  "  Hail  to  the  Chief"  and 
playing  the  "  Star  Spangled  Banner "  and 
"America"  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Waite  and  the 
Board  of  Lady  Managers  of  the  N.  M.  W. 
M.  A. 

At  the  home  of  Mary  Washington,  an  old 
time  cottage  on  a  side  street,  a  luncheon  was 
served  by  the  Fredericksburg  Monument  As- 
sociation to  the  National  Mary  Washington 
Memorial  Association.  The  ladies  were  re- 
ceived by  Mrs.  Fleming,  President  of  the  Fred- 
ericksburg Mary  Washington  Association,  as- 
sisted by  Mrs.  Thompson,  the  Secretary  and 
other  ladies.  The  old  house  had  been  pur- 
chased and  restored  by  the  Association  for  the 
Preservation  of  Virginia  Antiquities  and  was 
shining  with  a  new  coat  of  Colonial  yellow. 
It  was  furnished  completely  as  in  the  days  of 
Mary  Washington,  and  the  quaint  furniture 
with  the  turbaned  "Aunties"  in  attendance 
called  one  back  to  the  days  when  the  grand 
"Old  Mistress"  was  yet  alive  ;  while  the  open 
hearted  cordiality  of  the  hostesses  assured  all 
that  the  proverbial  hospitality  of  Old  Virginia 
was  as  active  as  ever. 


I4O  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

A  short  time  only  was  allowed  to  walk 
through  the  old  house,  to  wander  through  the 
garden  where  Lafayette  found  the  "Roman 
Matron  "  among  her  flowers,  when  a  summon 
came  to  attend  the  dedication  ceremonies. 

The  procession  in  honor  of  a  monument  to 
a  woman,  erected  by  women,  was  most  fit- 
tingly led  by  ten  beautiful  young  ladies  on 
horseback  under  the  leadership  of  Miss 
Rosalie  Bankhead  of  Stafford  County.  All 
wore  black  habits  and  black  cavalry  hats, 
adorned  with  sable  plumes  and  cockades  of 
the  Continental  colors.  Splendid  riders  they 
unflinchingly  kept  their  seats  through  fire 
and  sword  as  well  as  martial  music,  for  the 
Marine  Band  followed  with  a  large  Military 
escort,  marshalled  by  General  Charles  And- 
erson, who  wore  conspicuously  on  his  breast 
the  star  of  the  Hereditary  Life  Member,  first 
worn  by  him  at  the  White  Sulphur  Springs 
at  the  brilliant  ball  originated  and  managed 
by  Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor.  The  first,  and 
almost  the  only  man  then  entitled  to  wear  that 
star,  was  the  Adjudant  General  of  the  State 
of  Virginia,  the  marshall  of  that  procession. 

Then  followed  in  carriages  the  ladies  of  the 
two  Mary  Washington  Associations : 


THE    DEDICATION.  141 

Mrs.  Waite,  Mrs.  Fleming,  Mrs.  Hetzel, 
Mrs.  Thompson. 

Mrs.  Emory,  Miss  Maude  Lee  Davidge, 
Miss  Sallie  Emory,  Miss  Victoria  Emory. 

Mrs.  Mary  Virginia  Terhune,  Mrs.  Chris- 
tine Terhune  Herrick,  Mrs.  James  Power 
Smith,  Miss  Hetzel. 

Miss  Mary  Desha,  *Miss  Janet  Richards, 
Miss  Ida  Beall,  (carrying  a  flag  which  her 
grandfather  Admiral  ap  Catesby  Jones  car- 
ried in  the  war  of  1812. 

Then  followed  the  President's  carriage 
which  had  halted  for  the  ladies  to  take  the 
post  of  honor,  immediately  behind  the  mar- 
shal. The  President  saluted  the  ladies,  hat 
in  hand,  with  an  enthusiastic  smile  as  he  ac- 
corded them  the  precedence  and  fell  into  line 
behind  them. 

Fourteen  other  carnages  followed  filled 
with  distinguished  guests. 

Then  followed  the  Richmond  Light  Infantry 
Blues,  the  Alexandria  Drum  Corps,  the  Al- 
exandria Light  Infantry,  the  First  Virginia 
Regiment,  Co.  C.,  the  Richmond  Howitzers, 
the  Knights  of  Pythias,  Sons  of  Confederate 
Veterans,  Confederate  Veterans,  Fredericks- 


142  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

burg  Lodge  No.  4,  James  F.  Lowrey,  Master, 
and  Washington  Lodge,  Alexandria,  William 
F.  Smith,  Master. 

[General  Washington  was  initiated  a 
Mason  by  the  Fredericksburg  Lodge  and 
was  buried  by  the  Washington  Lodge  of 
Alexandria  of  which  he  was  a  member.] 

The  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
Virginia,  with  the  Grand  Secretary  of  the 
District  of  Columbia  closed  the  procession. 

Through  the  streets  of  Fredericksburg  they 
marched  and  as  they  passed  the  old  mansion 
of  Betty  Washington  Lewis,  now  known  as 
Kenmore,  the  tall,  white  shaft  appeared  in 
sight,  surrounded  by  gaily  decorated  stands 
crowded  by  still  more  gaily  decorated  people. 
In  the  midst  of  this  bustling  crowd  it  stood, 
pure,  solid,  simple,  like  the  woman  in  whose 
honor  it  was  erected,  a  silent  reminder  of  her 
simple  and  unobtrusive  grandeur  of  char- 
acter. 

Through  a  chaos  of  people  of  all  ages  and 
sexes,  in  multifarious  costumes,  guarded  by 
uniforms  of  every  conceivable  color  and  pat- 
tern, the  grand  stand  was  reached.  On  the 
rostrum  were  seated  President  Cleveland  and 


THE    DEDICATION.  143 

Mayor  Rowe,  the  Vice- President  and  Mrs. 
Stevenson,  President  General  of  the  Daugh- 
ters of  the  American  Revolution,  wearing  the 
star  of  the  Mary  Washington  Association, 
presented  to  her  by  the  Virginia  chapters  of 
Albemarle  and  Roanoke.  Near  Mrs.  Steven- 
son sat  Governor  and  Mrs.  O'Ferrall,  Sena- 
tor Daniel,  the  Secretary  of  State  and  Mrs. 
Gresham,  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  and 
Mrs.  Carlisle,  the  Secretary  of  War  and  Mrs. 
Lamont,  the  Secretary  of  Agriculture  and 
Miss  Morton,  Secretary  Bissell,  the  Chief 
Justice  and  Mrs.  Fuller,  Justice  and  Mrs. 
Harlan,  Mrs.  Waite,  President  of  the  Na- 
tional Mary  Washington  Memorial  Associa- 
tion, Mrs.  V.  M.  Fleming,  President  of  the 
Fredericksburg  Mary  Washington  Associa- 
tion, Mrs.  Hetzel,  Secretary  of  the  National 
Association,  and  Miss  Maude  Lee  Davidge, 
Incorporator  and  Director. 

Next  to  the  rostrum  were  seats  reserved 
for  the  descendants  of  Mary  Washington,  who 
had  been  specially  invited  by  the  National 
Association.  They  had  been  summoned  from 
the  East  and  from  the  West ;  from  old  West- 
moreland, King  George  and  Fairfax,  from 


144  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Maryland,  North  Carolina,  Kentucky,  Texas, 
California,  New  Jersey  and  New  York ;  one 
invitation  had  been  sent  to  Japan,  to  Paymas- 
ter Mason  Ball,  U.  S.  N.  All  present  wore 
red  and  gold  ribbons  in  honor  of  the  Ball 
family  and  their  seats  were  decorated  with 
red  and  gold  by  the  Chairman  of  Arrange- 
ments, Hon.  William  A.  Little.  Among  the 
descendants  present  were  Miss  Eugenia 
Washington,  Col.  Thornton  Augustus  Wash- 
ington and  Miss  Lee  Washington,  Mrs. 
Fanny  Washington  Finch  and  her  niece  Mrs. 
Magruder,  Miss  Eugenia  Washington  Mon- 
cure,  Captain  George  Washington  Ball  and 
his  daughters,  Mrs.  Hill  and  the  Misses  Ball ; 
Miss  Attaway  Lewis,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Byrd 
Lewis,  Mrs.  Bettie  McG.  Smoot,  Mrs.  Wal- 
lace, Mrs.  Mary  Stuart  Smith  and  her  daugh- 
ter Mrs.  Mills,  Mrs.  Empie,  Mr.  Lawrence 
Washington  of  Mt.  Vernon,  and  his  sisters, 
Miss  Eliza  Seldon  Washington  and  Mrs. 
Eleanor  Washington  Howard  ;  Mrs.  Perrine, 
of  Baltimore,  and  her  sister,  Mrs.  Mary 
Washington  Keyser,  Vice-President  and 
Hereditary  Life  Member,  wearing  the  spin- 
ning-wheel of  the  D.  A.  R.,  the  badge  of  the 


THE    DEDICATION.  145 

Colonial  Dames,  the  star  of  the  Hereditary 
Life  Member,  and  the  red  and  gold  streamers 
that  distinguished  the  descendants  of  Mary 
Ball.  The  reunion  of  the  descendants  was  not 
the  least  interesting  feature  of  the  celebration. 

Miss  Susan  Carrington  Clarke  and  Mrs. 
Clifton  R.  Breckenridge,  Vice-Presidents  for 
Connecticut  and  Arkansas,  sat  near  Mrs. 
Keyser  on  the  grand  stand.  One  could  not 
but  regret  the  absence  of  Mrs.  Pryor  and 
many  other  Vice-Presidents.  Among  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  pres- 
ent were  Mrs.  Kate  Kearney  Henry, 
Regent  of  the  District  of  Columbia,  Miss 
Ella  Loraine  Hersey,  Mrs.  Fanny  Washing- 
ton Reading,  Miss  Elizabeth  Lee  Washing- 
ton, Mrs.  Major  Goodloe,  Mrs.  Randolph 
Powell,  Mrs.  Thompson  H.  Alexander,  and 
Mrs.  Sylvia  Contee  Meredith,  accompanied  by 
her  husband,  Hon.  E.  E.  Meredith,  the  pop- 
ular Congressman  from  Northern  Virginia. 

The  ceremonies  opened  with  a  prayer  by 
the  Reverend  James  Power  Smith,  the  author 
of  the  touching  appeal  published  in  the  Home 
Maker  for  1890.  After  invoking  the  Divine 
blessing  he  said : 
10 


146  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

"  Amid  these  encircling  hills  of  green  and  these 
smiling  fields  of  plenty,  we  have  gathered  on  this 
gentle  errand  to  do  honor  to  the  American  woman 
to  whom  we  owe  so  much.  On  this  lovely  spot, 
consecrated  by  her  solitary  devotions,  where  rests 
the  hallowed  dust  in  silent  sleep  of  death,  American 
women  have  erected  this  monument  that  our  chil- 
dren's children  may  remember  her  in  grateful  love. 
They  have  wished  to  make  it  enduring,  that  its  les- 
sons may  never  fail  among  us,  and  they  have  made 
it  reach  aloft  that  it  may  point  forever  to  Thee,  by 
whom  alone  all  mothers  fulfill  their  missions  and 
all  sons  grow  in  strength  and  honor. 

"  Where  once  the  rude  alarms  of  war  made  the 
air  to  tremble  and  the  sun  to  hide  his  face;  on  this 
battlefield,  stained  alas,  with  the  blood  of  brothers, 
we  have  come  from  North  and  South  with  one 
accord,  to  fulfill  our  common  duty  of  respect. 
Peace,  blessed  peace  from  Thee,  O  God  of  Peace, 
comes  with  us;  and  surely  'peace  hath  its  victories 
no  less  renowned  than  war.' 

"  We  thank  Thee  for  the  sweet  name  of  mother; 
for  the  memory  of  this  noble  American  mother ;  for 
her  great  gift,  the  son  she  bore  and  bred,  and  all 
the  lessons  she  taught  him  of  truth  and  purity,  and 
the  manly  virtues  of  self  control  and  unselfish  devo- 
tion to  right  and  to  his  country  in  which  she 
trained  him. 

"  May  our  people  learn  more  and  more  to  honor 


THE    DEDICATION.  147 

the  name  of  mother;  and  every  home  be  the  shrine 
of  all  things  pure  and  lovely,  and  the  nursery  of 
sons  and  daughters  to  defend  and  adorn  a  great 
and  happy  land." 

After  this  sublime  prayer,  the  Mayor  of 
Fredericksburg  rose,  and  in  a  very  able  ad- 
dress welcomed  on  behalf  of  the  City  of 
Fredericksburg,  the  President,  Governor  and 
other  distinguished  guests.  He  gave  a  brief 
account  of  the  first  monument  and  the  lay- 
ing of  the  corner-stone  by  President  Andrew 
Jackson  ;  he  paid  an  eloquent  tribute  to  the 
lamented  Frank  Hatton  and  the  ladies  of  the 
Mary  Washington  Association,  including 
"  the  noble  women  in  various  sections,  some 
of  whom  have  graced  this  occasion  by  their 
presence  to-day." 

The  President  of  the  United  States  was 
then  welcomed  by  Governor  O'Ferrall  on  be- 
half of  the  Commonwealth  of  Virginia.  He 
alluded  to  the  memorial  in  these  eloquent 
words : 

"  To  perpetuate  the  memory  of  her  who  gave 
birth  to  the  leader  of  the  American  armies  in  the 
mighty  struggle;  fashioned  his  genius,  moulded  his 
character,  formed  his  soul  for  good,  and  inspired 


148  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

him  for  the  work  of  liberating  his  people  from  the 
fetters  of  tyranny  and  establishing  on  this  Western 
Continent  an  indestructible  Union  of  indestructible 
States,  '  a  government  which  is  the  cynosure  of  all 
nations'  eyes,  the  wonder  of  the  hemispheres,  the 
marvel  of  the  civiiized  world.' 

"  Here  under  this  bright  sky  and  in  these  clear 
sunbeams  the  first  monument  is  to  be  dedicated  in 
remembrance  of  this  noble  American  matron ; 
builded  not,  however,  by  this  Government  with  all 
its  might  and  wealth  and  resources,  but  by  a 
glorious  band  of  women  who  determined  to  rescue 
the  memory  of  the  mother  of  Washington  from  the 
corroding  hand  of  time  and  carve  her  name  in 
letters  deep  in  marble,  where  generations  down, 
down  the  ages  to  come  can  read  with  kindling  eyes 
and  swelling  bosoms." 

Then,  after  alluding  to  Washington  as  a 
Cromwell  without  his  ambition,  a  Scylla  with- 
out his  crimes,  to  the  world  its  brightest  ex- 
ample, and  to  mankind  its  ideal  philanthro- 
pist, he  alluded  to  President  Cleveland  as 
"  a  statesman  without  guile,  a  patriot  with- 
out selfishness ;"  he  welcomed  the  Justices  of 
the  Supreme  Court  as  successors  of  John 
Marshall,  with  a  hearty  greeting  to  the  mem- 
bers of  the  Cabinet,  the  Senators  and  repre- 


THE    DEDICATION.  149 

/ 

sentatives,  concluding  with  these  impressive 
words : 

"  Let  our  blessings  ever  follow  the  glorious 
daughters  of  this  bonded  Union,  by  whose  appoint- 
ment we  are  here,  who,  with  feet  that  never  wearied, 
with  a  resolution  that  never  faltered,  with  spirits 
that  never  drooped  and  hearts  that  never  grew  faint, 
pursued  the  noble  work  to  which  they  had  conse- 
crated themselves  until  this  pillar  was  crowned  with 
its  apex,  the  last  letter  carved,  the  trowel  and  chisel 
laid  to  rest  and  the  whole  structure  dedicated  for 
all  time  to  the  memory  of  Mary,  the  mother  of 
Washington,  and  committed  to  the  keeping  of  Vir- 
ginia, her  birthland,  her  homeland,  her  graveland, 
who  with  her  watchful  eye  will  guard  it  with  sacred 
care  and  by  her  strong  arm  protect  it  from  the 
Vandal  touch." 

The  President,  introduced  by  Mayor  Rowe, 
followed  with  an  impressive  address  delivered 
in  a  strong,  mellow,  penetrating  voice  that 
seemed  capable  of  filling  the  entire  Monu- 
ment Park  without  any  effort  on  the  part  of 
the  speaker.  He  said  : 

"  Governor     O'Ferrall,    Mr.    Mayor     and    Fellow 

Citizens: 

"  I  speak  for  those  who  are  to-day  greeted  as  the 
official  guests  of  Virginia  and  Fredericksburg,  when 


I5O  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

I  return  hearty  thanks  for  the  hearty  welcome  that 
has  been  extended  to  us  in  behalf  of  both  State  and 
City.  Our  appreciation  of  the  warmth  of  your  re- 
ception is  not  diminished  by  the  thought  that  in 
the  light  of  the  highest  meaning  belonging  to  this 
occasion,  there  are  no  guests  here.  We  have 
assembled  on  equal  terms  to  worship  at  a  sacred 
National  shrine.  *  *  * 

"The  man  who  said  he  cared  not  who  made  the 
people's  laws  if  he  could  write  their  songs,  might 
have  said  with  more  truth  that  he  could  gauge  the 
strength  and  honor  of  a  people  and  their  fitness  for 
self  government  if  he  knew  the  depth  and  steadfast- 
ness of  their  love  for  their  mothers.  I  believe  that 
he  who  thinks  it  manly  to  outgrow  his  care  and 
devotion  to  his  mother,  is,  more  that  he  who  has  no 
music  in  himself,  fit  for  treason,  stratagem  and 
spoils,  and  should  not  be  trusted.  Let  us  recall 
to  day  as  conclusive  proof  of  close  relation  between 
American  greatness  and  a  lasting  love  and  reverence 
for  our  mothers,  the  proud  declaration  of  George 
Washington,  '  All  I  am  I  owe  to  my  mother,'  and 
let  us  not  forget  that  when  his  glory  was  greatest 
and  when  the  plaudits  of  his  countrymen  were 
loudest,  he  valued  more  than  these  the  blessing  and 
approval  of  his  aged  mother. 

"  While  these  exercises  cannot  fail  to  inspire  us 
anew  with  reverence  for  American  motherhood,  we 
will  remember  that  we  are  here  to  do  honor  to  the 


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woman  who  gave  to  our  Nation  its  greatest  and 
best  citizen,  and  that  we  have  the  privilege  of  parti- 
cipating in  the  dedication  of  a  monument  erected 
by  the  women  of  our  land  in  loving  and  enduring 
testimony  to  the  virtues  of  the  mother  of  Washing- 
ton. Let  us  be  proud  to-day  that  the  nobility  of 
this  woman  exacted  from  a  distinguished  foreigner 
the  admission  :  '  If  such  are  the  matrons  of  America, 
she  may  well  boast  of  illustrious  sons/  and  that 
Lafayette,  who  had  fought  with  her  son  for 
American  independence,  declared  after  he  had  re-  . 
ceived  her  blessing :  '  I  have  seen  the  only  Roman 
matron  living  at  this  day.' 

"  Remembering  these  things,  let  us  leave  this 
place  with  our  love  of  country  strengthened,  with 
a  higher  value  of  American  citizenship,  and  with  a 
prayer  to  God  that  our  people  may  hold  fast  to  the 
sentiment  that  grows  out  of  the  love  and  reverence 
for  American  motherhood." 

After  the  President's  address  the  monu- 
ment was  dedicated  by  the  Grand  Master  of 
the  Masons  of  Virginia,  Mann  Page,  and  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  Virginia,  assisted  by  Freder- 
icksburg  Lodge  No.  4,  where  Washington 
was  initiated ;  and  Washington  Lodge  of 
Alexandria,  of  which  he  was  the  first  Master, 
a  member  until  his  death,  and  under  whose 
management  his  funeral  was  conducted. 


152  BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 

When  the  dedication  ceremonies  were 
completed,  President  Cleveland  arose,  saying 
that  it  was  one  of  the  most  interesting  inci- 
dents of  the  occasion  to  present  a  lineal  de- 
scendant of  "  Mary,  the  mother  of  Washing- 
ton," introduced  Mr.  Lawrence  Washington, 
who  responded  on  behalf  of  the  Washington 
family.  His  speech  was  an  interesting  sketch 
of  the  parentage  and  home  of  Mary  Ball,  of 
her  married  life,  her  widowhood  and  the 
character  of  her  children,  concluding  with 
these  words: 

"A  life  like  hers  spent  in  the  performance  of 
those  domestic  duties  which  demand  no  public 
recognition  or  applause,  and  of  which  no  account 
is  immediately  written,  can  only  be  judged  by  its 
results.  Tested  by  this  standard  it  needs  no 
apologies,  and  her  requiem  might  well  close  with 
the  motto  of  her  husband's  family,  '  Excitus  acta 
probat!  " 

The  President  then  introduced  the  orator 
of  the  day  in  the  following  felicitous  words: 

"  On  a  day  like  this,  of  which  Virginia 
should  feel  proud,  she  is  peculiarly  fortunate 
in  having  within  her  borders  one  who  is  bet- 
ter equipped  than  any  man  in  the  whole 


THE    DEDICATION.  153 

country  for  performing  the  duties  of  the  oc- 
casion. She  could  not  find  one  more  fit  than 
the  distinguished  son  she  has  chosen.  I  in- 
troduce Senator  John  Daniel." 

Senator  Daniel's  address  on  this  occasion 
has  been  pronounced  the  ablest  oratorical 
effort  of  his  life ;  thai-  he  was  the  Senator  who 
so  long  and  valiantly  strove  to  have  the  work 
done  by  the  Government,  adds  zest  to  his 
remarks : 

"  MR.  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  ;  LADIES 
OF  THE  MARY  WASHINGTON  MONUMENT  ASSO- 
CIATION, MY  COUNTRYMEN  : 

"  George  Washington  was  the  noblest  figure  that 
ever  stood  in  the  forefront  of  a  nation's  life.  We 
are  gathered  to-day  around  his  mother's  grave. 
1  All  that  I  am,'  said  he,  '  I  owe  to  my  mother.' 
All  that  we  are  as  a  nation  we  owe  to  him.  His 
debt  is  ours.  *  *  *  Beholding  this  monument, 
we  rejoice  that  this  debt  is  acknowledged,  and 
realize  that  no  limitation  of  time  can  bar  rendition 
of  justice  to  a  noble  fame. 

"  Our  gratitude  goes  forth  to  our  countrywomen 
who  have  so  worthily  achieved,  this  work.  Men 
attempted  it  and  left  it  half  accomplished.  The 
State  and  the  Federal  governments  alike  contem- 
plated, discussed  and  postponed  it.  Our  noble 
women  undertook  it  and  it  was  done. 


154  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

"  We  thank  you,  Madam,  you  Mrs.  President, 
and  your  companions  of  the  Mary  Washington 
Memorial  Association.  Your  success  is  your  re- 
ward, and  you  will  be  henceforth  blended  in  our 
veneration  with  her  whose  name  is  carved  upon 
this  sacred  stone.  It  was  fitting  indeed  that  your 
pious  hands  should  rear  the  first  monument  on 
earth  erected  by  women  to  a  woman,  and  fitting 
too  that  it  should  bear  the  name  of  Mary,  the 
mother  of  Washington." 

After  a  tribute  to  the  American  home  and 
to  its  effects  on  good  government  and  a  just 
nation,  he  said  : 

"  You  have  reared  this  beautiful  obelisk  to  one 
who  was  the  light  of  the  dwelling  in  a  plain,  rural, 
colonial  home.  Her  history  hovers  around  it. 
She  nursed  a  hero  at  her  breast.  At  the  knee  she 
trained  to  the  love  and  fear  of  God  and  to  the 
kingly  virtues,  honour,  truth  and  valour,  the  lion  of 
the  tribe  that  gave  to  America  liberty  and  inde- 
pendence. This  is  her  title  to  renown.  It  is 
enough.  * 

"  She  was  the  good  angel  of  the  hearthstone — 
the  special  providence  of  tender  hearts  and  helpless 
hands,  content  to  bear  her  burden  in  the  sequestered 
vale  of  life,  her  thoughts  unperverted  by  false  ambi- 
tion, and  all  unlocking  for  the  great  reward  that 
crowned  her  love  and  toil, 


THE    DEDICATION.  155 

"  But  for  the  light  that  streamed  from  the  deeds 
of  him  she  bore,  we  doubtless  would  have  never 
heard  the  name  of  Mary  Washington,  and  the  grass 
that  grew  upon  this  grave  had  not  been  disturbed 
by  curious  footsteps  nor  reverential  hands ;  but  it 
does  not  follow  that  she  shines  only  in  the  reflection 
of  her  offspring's  fame.  Her  virtues  were  not 
created,  they  were  only  discovered  by  the  mar- 
vellous career  of  her  illustrious  son.  This  memorial 
might  indeed  be  due  to  her  because  of  who  she  was, 
but  it  is  far  more  due  because  of  what  she  was.  It 
is  in  her  own  right,  and  as  the  type  of  her  sex,  her 
people  and  her  race,  that  she  deserves  this  tribute 
stone. 

"There  were  ten  thousand  Mary  Washingtons 
among  the  mothers  of  the  Revolution,  and  honour- 
ing her  we  honour  the  mqtherhood  of  heroic  days 
and  heroic  men.  It  was  in  his  character,  all- suffi- 
cient in  every  emergency,  that  was  displayed  the 
overtowering  greatness  of  George  Washington  and 
it  is  not  doubted  that  this  character  was  toned  and 
shaped  by  his  mother's  hand.  The  principles  which 
he  applied  to  a  Nation  were  those  simple  and 
elementary  truths  which  she  first  imprinted  upon 
his  mind  in  the  discipline  of  home."  *  * 

Senator  Daniel  reviewed  the  life  of  Mary 
Washington  from  her  youth,  when  she  was 
"The  Belle  of  the  Northern  Neck,"  "The 


156  BUILDING   OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Rose  of  Epping  Forest,"  to  her  old  age  when 
she  was  venerated  as  the  "Roman  Matron," 
or  beloved  as  "Old  Madam;"  of  her  appear- 
ance at  the  Peace  Ball,  her  reception  of  Lafay- 
ette in  her  garden,  of  her  last  meeting  with 
her  great  son,  when  he  came  to  receive  her 
blessing  before  accepting  the  highest  gift  of  a 
grateful  nation.  He  told  of  her  death,  of  the 
generous  gift  of  Mr.  Burrows ;  of  the  laying 
of  the  corner  stone  on  the  yth  of  May,  1833, 
of  the  misfortune  of  the  unfinished  monument 
as  battle-scarred  and  weather-stained  it  had 
finally  become  so  dilapidated  as  to  be  incap- 
able of  reconstruction.  He  concluded  with 
these  stirring  words : 

"  Once  again  the  May  time  breaks  with  its  sun- 
shine, its  verdure  and  its  blossoms  over  the  land 
whose  hills  and  plains  were  shaken  and  whose 
houses  were  shattered  by  the  thunders  of  war;  but 
no  more  do  their  long  lines  come  gleaming  out  to 
the  deadly  fray;  no  more  is  heard  '  the  noise  of  the 
captains  and  the  shouting,'  no  more  are  seen  the 
garments  rolled  in  blood.  Yet  history  repeats 
itself,  and  a  mighty  host  is  again  marshaled  upon 
these  plains.  Manhood  and  womanhood  and  child- 
hood are  here ;  the  people  have  come  from  far  and 
wide ;  the  old  Masonic  Lodge  of  which  Washing- 


THE    DEDICATION.  157 

ton  was  a  member  and  the  volunteer  soldiery  are 
gathered  here,  and  our  noble  chief  Magistrate  and 
Commander  in  Chief,  who  fills  the  seat  of  Washing- 
ton and  Jackson,  is  here  to  lift  up  the  pure  ideals 
of  the  Republic  and  imbibe  and  impress  the  lessons 
of  this  consecrated  day.  '  I  prophesy,'  said  Thomas 
Carlyle,  '  that  the  world  will  once  more  become  a 
sincere,  a  believing  world,  with  many  heroes  in  it — 
a  heroic  world.  It  will  then  be  a  victorious  world 
— never  'till  then.'  Fireside  lessons  and  the 
mother's  love  must  make  it  so — sincere,  believing, 
heroic,  victorious.  In  scenes  like  this  are  tokens 
of  the  fulfillment  of  the  prophet's  vision.  Patriot- 
ism kneeling  by  the  good  woman's  grave  invokes 
its  inspirations  and  prays  God's  blessing  on  the  land 
of  Washington." 

Immediately  after  Senator  Daniel's  oration 
and  the  applause  that  followed,  two  beautiful 
baskets  of  flowers  were  presented  to  Mrs. 
Waite  and  Mrs.  Hetzel  by  Miss  Maude  Lee 
Davidge,  of  the  National  Board  of  Directors, 
and  Miss  Victoria  Emory,  daughter  of  the 
First  Vice  President.  They  were  the  kind 
and  graceful  gifts  of  the  sister  of  Senator 
Daniel. 

Governor  O'Ferrall,  at  the  request  of  the 
ladies  of  the  Fredericksburg  Mary  Washing- 


158  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

ton  Monument  Association,  read  a  set  of  en- 
grossed resolutions,  which  were  then  pre- 
sented to  Mrs.  Waite  as  President  of  the 
National  Society. 

After  a  preamble  stating  the  gift  of  Mr. 
Shepherd,  the  conditional  deed  to  the  Na- 
tional Association  and  the  erection  of  the 
monument  just  dedicated,  it  was 

"  Resolved,  By  the  Mary  Washington  Monument 
Association  of  Fredericksburg,  Virginia,  that  the 
most  heartfelt  thanks  of  the  Association  are  due 
and  are  hereby  tendered  to  the  National  Mary 
Washington  Memorial  Association  for  the  able  and 
effective  way  in  which  the  monument  on  their  part 
has  been  pushed  to  a  successful  completion,  for 
their  earnest  and  untiring  efforts,  for  their  zeal  and 
devotion  to  this  sacred  cause,  and  for  their  patriot- 
ism so  well  expressed  in  this  enduring  shaft  of 
granite. 

"  And  be  it  further  Resolved,  That  this  Associa- 
tion do  also  tender  their  thanks  to  those  friends 
who,  more  especially  in  the  beginning  01  this  under- 
taking, came  to  their  aid  with  untiring  interest  and 
unflagging  zeal,  prominent  among  whom  stand  the 
names  of  Dr.  James  P.  Smith,  the  late  lamented 
Frank  Hatton,  and  Mrs.  M.  V.  Terhune." 

This  concluded  the  ceremonies.    The  ladies 


THE    DEDICATION.  159 

of  the  National  Board  enjoyed  a  rest  in  the 
cool  sweet  home  of  Mrs.  Fleming.  President 
Cleveland,  after  holding  a  reception  on  the 
Monument  Park,  made  a  visit  to  the  pretty 
cottage  opposite,  the  home  of  Hon.  J.  Sey- 
mour White  of  the  Fredericksburg  Free 
Lance,  where  he  was  entertained  by  Mrs. 
White  and  the  charming  sister  of  Mrs.  White, 
Mrs.  Judge  Goolrick,  the  First  Vice-President 
for  Virginia  of  the  National  Association.  Her 
early  services  to  the  cause  are  recorded  in 
these  pages,  especially  her  admirable  appeal 
published  on  October  3ist,  1889. 

The  President,  Cabinet,  Justices,  Senator 
Daniel  and  Governor  O'Ferrall  and  staff 
were  then  escorted  to  the  old  Mary  Wash- 
ington house  where  they  partook  of  a  lunch- 
eon. The  President,  delighted,  wandered 
through  the  old  rooms,  admiring  the  quaint, 
colonial  furniture  and  recalling  the  past.  He 
then  asked  if  it  were  too  late  to  invite  the  de- 
scendants of  Mary  Washington  to  meet  him 
in  the  old  home  of  their  ancestress,  for  he 
would  be  very  happy  to  see  them  there. 
Then  the  wearers  of  the  red  and  gold,  living 
in  Fredericksburg,  who  were  entertaining 


I6O  BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 

their  kinsfolk  from  a  distance  were  summoned 
from  their  luncheons,  and  hosts  and  guests, 
without  regard  to  age  or  sex,  repaired  to  the 
old  home,  where  the  great-great-grandson  of 
old  Aaron  Cleveland,  Congregational  parson, 
patriotic  poet  and  Revolutionary  officer,  had 
the  satisfaction  of  grasping  the  hands  and  en- 
joying the  conversation  of  the  nearest  living 
relatives  of  his  first  and  greatest  predecessor 
in  the  home  of  his  beloved  and  honored 
mother. 


CHAPTER  XXIV. 

THE  BANQUET. 

f 

AT  four  o'clock,  after  the  dedication,  a  ban- 
quet was  given  in  the  opera  house  by  the 
Masons  of  Fredericksburg,  under  the  auspices 
of  Fredericksburg  Lodge  No.  4.  This  was 
pronounced  the  grandest  banquet  that  Fred- 
erieksburg  had  ever  known.  The  hall  was 
handsomely  decorated  with  flags,  festoons, 
and  streamers  of  bunting,  stars  and  stripes 
innumerable,  the  Virginia  banner,  the  Conti: 
nental  colors,  buff  and  blue  varied  by  flowers, 
ferns  and  palms,  which,  combined  with  the 
dresses  of  the  lady  guests,  the  regalia  of  the 
Masons,  the  floral  ornamentation  of  the 
tables,  and  the  cut  glass  and  silverware  pro- 
duced a  dazzling  effect. 

The  Marine  Band  discoursed  sweet  music, 
and  when  the  familiar  strains  of  "  Hail  to  the 
Chief"  announced  t&e  arrival  of  the  Executive 
he  was  greeted  with  loud  cheers  by  all 
present,  to  whom  he  was  presented  by  Judge 
Sener,  of  Fredericksburg,  as  "a  guest  of  the 
ii  (161) 


1 62  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

lodge  in  which  George  Washington  was  made 
a  Mason  ;  in  the  spot  where  Andrew  Jackson 
had  laid  the  cornerstone  of  a  monument  to 
Mary  Washington,  and  which  now  welcomed 
the  illustrious  successor  of  Washington  and 
Jackson,  President  Grover  Cleveland." 

The  President  replied  in  a  few  felicitous 
remarks,  saying  that  he  was  embarrassed  by 
being  numbered  with  his  predecessors,  for  he 
was  but  an  unworthy  successor  of  Washing- 
ton and  Jackson;  he  also  regretted  that  he 
was  not  a  Mason  ;  perhaps  it  was  not  his 
fault,  but  he  was  sure  it  was  his  misfortune ; 
but,  he  added,  that  he  belonged  to  a  fraternity 
of  which  George  Washington  and  Andrew 
Jackson  were  both  prominent  members,  whose 
temple  was  not  as  old  as  Solomon's,  for  it 
was  an  American  institution,  a  fraternity, 
whose  fruits  would  always  be  before  the 
world.  "  Would  you  know  its  name  ?  It  is 
the  brotherhood  of  free  and  accepted  Ameri- 
can citizens." 

The  President  and  party  were  hardly 
seated,  the  cheering  of  the  crowd  and  the 
music  of  the  band  not  yet  hushed  when  the 
Governor  with  Mrs.  O'Ferrall,  Congressman 


THE    BANQUET.  163 

and  Mrs.  E.  E.  Meredith  and  thirteen  beau- 
tiful girls  from  Richmond,  representing  the 
thirteen  original  States,  arrived  and  were 
presented  by  Judge  Sener.  The  Governor 
responded  to  the  greetings  with  a  few  amus- 
ing words  and  took  his  seat  amid  the  laughter 
and  plaudits  of  his  hearers. 

The  Governor  was  followed  by  Mrs.  Waite. 
When  she  was  introduced  by  Judge  Sener 
she  smilingly  bowed  her  acknowledgements 
to  the  rapturous  applause  which  greeted  her, 
equalling  in  enthusiasm  that  accorded  the 
President.  She  was  accompanied  by  Mrs. 
Fleming  and  Mrs.  Thompson,  President  and 
Secretary  of  the  Fredericksburg  Association. 
Mrs.  Hetzel,  the  Secretary  of  the  National 
Association  was  unable  to  be  present,  being 
exhausted  by  the  excitement  and  fatigue  of 
the  dedication  ceremonies,  but  her  place  was 
admirably  filled  by  the  Assistant  Secretary, 
Miss  Mary  F.  Waite.  Miss  Maude  Lee 
Davidge,  Incorporator,  was  also  of  the  party 
with  Miss  Victoria  Emory,  Miss  Elsie  McEl- 
roy,  of  Washington,  and  Miss  Hetzel,  of  Fair- 
fax County,  Va. 

The  first  toast  to  the  "Memory  of  Mary 


164  BUILDING   OF    A   MONUMENT. 

Washington"  was  responded  to  by  George 
Alfred  Townsend  in  an  attempt  to  travesty 
that  memory  by  a  so-called  poem,  containing 
more  truth  than  poetry,  but  very  little  of 
either.  How  one  longed  for  the  woman's 
poem  of  60  years  previous ! 

The  toast:  "George  Washington  the 
Master  Workman  of  the  Age,"  was  re- 
sponded to  by  Vice-President  Stevenson  in 
an  admirable  address.  As  a  son  of  Illinois 
he  extolled  the  generosity  of  Virginia  in  ced- 
ing to  the  General  Government  the  great 
Northwest,  the  conquest  of  George  Rogers 
Clarke.  He  paid  a  splendid  tribute  to  George 
Washington  as  a  soldier,  a  statesman,  a 
Mason.  "He  was  the  recognized  master 
workman.  His  most  eloquent  eulogist  has 
well  said:  'Virginia  gave  Washington  to 
America  and  America  gave  him  to  the  world 
and  the  ages.' " 

At  the  laying  of  the  corner-stone  of  the 
National  Capitol,  one  hundred  years  ago, 
Washington  officiated  as  Grand  Master  of 
Freemasons  as  well  as  in  his  great  office  of 
President  of  the  United  States.  No  crafts- 
man can  forget  that  upon  that  historic  occa- 


THE    BANQUET.  165 

sion  Washington  wore  the  sash  and  apron 
that  had  been  wrought  by  the  hands  of  the 
wife  of  the  beloved  Lafayette.  *  *  * 

"Amid  discouragement  and  danger  let  us  not  for- 
get that  with  Washington  there  was  an  abiding 
faith  in  the  capacity  of  his  countrymen  for  self- 
government.  *  *  *  The  century  just  closing  has 
not  dimmed  the  glory  of  the  achievements  of  this 
illustrious  man.  *  *  *  His  name  and  fame  are  the 
precious  heritage  of  all  people  and  all  times,  his 
last  words,  the  shibboleth  of  all  parties  and  sec- 
tions." 

Mr.  Justice  Harlan  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
U.  S.  A.,  responded  to  the  toast:  "Our  dis- 
tinguished guests;  we  extend  to  them  a 
hearty  welcome." 

Justice  Harlan,  after  saying  that  he  was  a 
son  of  Kentucky  and  therefore  a  grandson  of 
Virginia,  thanked  the  people  of  Fredericks- 
burg,  most  cordially  on  behalf  of  the  Presi- 
dent and  his  Cabinet,  the  Vice-President,  the 
Chief  Justice  and  the  Senators  and  Represen- 
tatives, for  the  opportunity  of  being  present 
on  such  an  interesting  occasion  and  for  the 
generous  hospitality  extended  to  all.  "All 
the  world,"  he  said,  "knows  what  Virginia 


1 66  BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 

hospitality  means."  He  paid  a  graceful  trib- 
ute to  George  Mason's  Bill  of  Rights,  and 
Virginia  Constitution  of  1776,  and  to  the 
heroes  and  statesmen  of  the  Revolutionary 
period.  "  But,"  he  concluded,  "  there  is  an- 
other circumstance  connected  with  this  occa- 
sion which  is  of  peculiar  interest  to  the  pres- 
ent Chief  Justice  and  myself  as  members  of 
the  Supreme  Court  of  the  United  States.  It 
is,  that  the  erection  of  this  beautiful  monu- 
ment is  principally  due  to  the  untiring,  unself- 
ish, patient  labor  of  a  noble  woman,  the 
widow  of  an.  honored  successor  of  Chief  Jus- 
tice Marshall.  I  allude,  as  you  know,  to  Mrs. 
Amelia  C.  Waite,  the  President  of  the  Na- 
tional Mary  Washington  Memorial  Associa- 
tion. She  deserves  and  will  receive  the 
thanks  of  all,  in  every  country,  who  revere 
the  memory  of  the  mother  of  Washington 
and  her  illustrious  son." 

The  last  toast:  "To  the  National  Mary 
Washington  Memorial  Association,"  was  re- 
sponded to  by  Hon.  Blair  Lee,  son  of  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Blair  Lee,  Second  Vice-President. 
He  said: 

"  The  National  Mary  Washington  Memorial  As- 


THE    BANQUET.  167 

sociation  was  started  in  May,  1889,  by  Mrs.  Hetzel. 
It  was  about  the  same  time  that  Mrs.  Terhune 
|  Marion  Harland]  commenced  the  same  work  in 
New  York,  and  a  similar  movement  was  made  in 
the  Old  South  Church,  Boston.  The  reason  for  so 
general  an  uprising  was  the  advertisement  of  the 
sale  at  public  auction  of  the  ground  on  which  the 
unfinished  mo  lument  to  Mary  Washington  stood. 

"  About  this  time  came  the  news  of  the  fearful 
disaster  at  Johnstown,  Pennsylvania,  by  which,  and 
the  coming  of  the  summer  season,  all  efforts  were 
postponed  until  the  autumn,  when  the  work  com- 
menced with  vigor.  In  the  meantime  the  Mary 
Washington  Society  of  Fredericksburg  secured  the 
land  and  deeded  it  to  the  National  Society  '  on  con- 
dition of  their  erecting  a  suitable  monument  upon 
the  ground.'  These  conditions  appear  now  to  be 
fulfilled. 

"To  Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Waite,  President,  and  Mrs. 
Margaret  Hetzel,  Secretary,  of  the  lady  managers, 
is  principally  due  the  success  of  the  undertaking. 

"  Mrs.  Waite  brought  to  this  difficult  task  quali- 
ties in  a  woman  such  as  we  are  familiar  with  in  the 
character  of  Washington — dignity,  patience,  indus- 
try and  good  sense.  In  directing  the  energy  and 
reconciling  the  differences  of  her  associates  and  in 
arousing  public  interest,  she  has  experienced  and 
overcome  many  difficulties  not  unlike  some  that 
met  and  harrassed  General  Washington,  and  she 


1 68  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

may  not  only  look  back  upon  her  labors  as  success- 
ful but  as  showing  forth  what  they  were  least  meant 
to  exhibit — the  exalted  nature  of  a  true  woman. 

"  Mrs.  Hetzel  suggested  the  work,  and  as  Secre- 
tary of  the  Board  of  Lady  Managers  has  been  inde- 
fatigable, writing  hundreds,  I  might  say  thousands 
of  letters  to  all  parts  of  the  United  States,  endeavor- 
ing to  enlist  the  patriotism  of  the  women  who  could 
appreciate  the  character  of  Washington's  mother." 

Thus  concisely  and  clearly  did  Mr.  Lee 
recapitulate  what  has  already  become  famil- 
iar to  the  reader.  He  then  alluded  to  the 
successful  work  of  Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor, 
reading  a  beautiful  letter,  regretting  her  ina- 
bility to  be  present.  After  another  deserved 
tribute  to  Mrs.  Terhune  and  the  Vice-Presi- 
dents  of  the  States,  he  spoke  of  the  recent 
loss  that  the  Association  had  sustained  : 

"  One  vacancy  has  occurred  in  the  Board  of 
Directors  since  its  organization  through  the  death 
of  Hon.  Frank  Hatton.  Passing  along  Pennsyl- 
vania Avenue  on  the  evening  of  the  day  he  died, 
by  a  flag  at  half  mast  on  the  beautiful  building  he 
was  prominent  in  erecting,  I  knew  of  his  departure. 
The  moment  and  its  suggestions  were  impressive. 
A  bright  star  was  sinking  in  the  clear  west.  There 
came  one  of  those  lulls  which  sometimes  take  place 


THE    BANQUET.  169 

in  the  traffic  of  a  thoroughfare.  It  seemed  as 
though  the  spirit  of  the  dead  was  taking  its  last 
look  at  the  scene  of  life's  labor  and  success.  This 
Association  has  lost  in  him  a  Director  whose  posi- 
tion on  the  press,  whose  liberal  sympathies  and  in- 
tellectual gifts  made  him  a  vigorous  helper." 

This  was  the  last  speech.  The  ladies  at 
the  National  Association  were  saddened  at 
thus  recalling  the  memory  of  their  sympathiz- 
ing friend  and  active  helper.  Mr.  Lee  had 
filled  his  vacant  chair  and  responded  for  him. 
The  appeal  of  the  Reverend  James  Power 
Smith,  issued  in  Fredericksburg  on  Novem- 
ber 20,  1889,  said:  "A  general  sentiment  is 
rising,  stimulated  by  the  meeting  in  the  Qld 
South  Meeting  House,  Boston,  and  in  the 
action  of  the  Washington  Post."  This  appeal 
of  the  Fredericksburg  Association  made  this 
first  tribute  to  Mr.  Hatton,  and  it  was  most 
fitting  that  the  last  words  spoken  at  the  ded- 
ication ceremonies  should  also  be  a  tribute  to 
his  memory." 

A  contemporary  sheet  said  :  "It  was  a  day 
of  patriotic  oratory — a  day  when  the  minds  of 
the  speakers  and  their  hearers  were  turned 
back  to  Revolutionary  men  and  deeds  as  in 


I7O  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT^ 

'the  dear  old  unestranged  days/  as  Mr. 
Lowell  would  say." 

Too  much  cannot  be  said  of  the  unbounded 
hospitality  and  perfect  management  shown  by 
the  citizens  of  Fredericksburg  on  this  impres- 
sive occasion.  The  Fredericksburg  Monu- 
ment Association  under  the  admirable  lead- 
ership of  Mrs.  Fleming,  the  Masonic  Lodge, 
the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  of  the  Lodge,  and  the 
various  committees  of  invitation,  arrange- 
ment, transportation,  etc.,  all  provided  in  the 
most  complete  manner  for  the  comfort  and 
enjoyment  of  their  thousand  guests.  And  it 
also  must  not  be  forgotten  here  that  the  do- 
nation of  the  Fredericksburg  Monument  As- 
sociation to  the  monument  was  two  thousand 
dollars,  including  the  lot. 

The  President  and  party,  Mr.  and  Miss 
Waite,  and  other  distinguished  guests,  left  on 
the  six  o'clock  train  for  Washington,  but  sev- 
eral remained,  including  the  Governor  and 
his  staff,  and  a  beautiful  ball  was  given  in  his 
honor.  The  Opera  House  was  transformed 
from  a  banqueting  hall  into  a  ball  room, 
where  the  showy  uniforms  of  the  Governor 
and  his  staff  and  the  beautiful  ball  dresses  of 


THE    BANQUET.  17! 

the  more  beautiful  Virginia  girls  made  a  truly 
brilliant  scene. 

"Thus  ended,"  said  the  Fredericksburg 
Star,  "the  biggest  day  that  Fredericksburg 
has  ever  seen  or  ever  will  see.  Not  a  disa- 
greeable incident  occurred  as  far  as  we  could 
hear  to  mar  the  pleasure  of  the  occasion." 


CHAPTER  XXV. 

DE   PROFUNDIS. 

THE  closing  words  of  Mr.  Blair  Lee  at  the 
banquet  at  Fredericksburg  were:  "The  work 
of  this  organization  is  but  half  done.  The 
monument  is  indeed  before  you,  but  a  fund 
must  be  provided  for  its  preservation ;  a 
keeper,  a  lodge  and  suitable  enclosures  must 
be  secured.  While  your  patriotic  emotions 
are  still  glowing  under  the  eloquence  of  Sen- 
ator Daniel  it  is  hoped  that  you  will  each  and 
all  resolve  that  the  good  work  shall  stand." 

On  February  22,  1895,  the  annual  meeting 
was  held  at  the  residence  of  Chief  Justice 
Fuller,  the  host  presiding.  All  the  original 
incorporators  were  present,  also  Mr.  Lee  and 
Mr.  Fendall  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 

Many  Hereditary  Life  Members  were  pres- 
ent. Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor  and  Mrs.  Daniel 
Manning,  of  New  York;  Mrs.  Squire,  of 
Washington  State;  Mrs.  Cheney,  of  New 
Hampshire;  Miss  Clarke,  of  Connecticut; 
Mrs.  Putnam,  of  New  Jersey;  Mrs.  Hulbert, 
(172) 


DE    PROFUNDIS.  173 

Mrs.  Perin,  Mrs.  Thomas,  Miss  Annie  Laws 
and  Miss  Mary  Torrence  Harrison,  of  Ohio ; 
Mrs.  MacCartney,  Mrs.  Hunsicker  and  Miss 
Rittenhouse,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  Miss  Anne 
Randolph  Ball,  of  the  District  of  Columbia. 
Mrs.  Newport,  the  Vice-President  for  Minne- 
sota, was  represented  by  her  daughter,  Miss 
May  Newport  and  Mrs.  Mary  Stuart  Smith, 
of  Virginia,  by  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Lelia  B. 
Cocke. 

The  Secretary  after  presenting  the  minutes 
of  the  last  meeting  reported  that  the  list  of 
Hereditary  Life  Members  had  increased  dur- 
ing the  year  from  168  to  187.  The  Treas- 
urer's report  was  then  called  for  and  a  balance 
of  $2,600  reported. 

Mrs.  Waite  then  submitted  her  report, 
her  last  annual  report.  Though  the  events 
have  already  been  described  elsewhere,  it  is 
well  to  hear  of  them  through  her : 

"  Since  our  last  annual  meeting  we  have  some 
progress  to  report,  but  much  less  than  we  had 
expected. 

"  At  that  time  we  could  say  that  the  monument 
to  'M*ary,  the  Mother  of  Washington/  was  com- 
pleted, but  not  dedicated. 


174  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

"  That  ceremony  took  place  on  the  roth  of  May, 
1894,  in  the  presence  of  a  distinguished  gathering. 
The  President  of  the  United  States  and  many  of  his 
Cabinet,  the  Vice-President  and  Chief  Justice  of  the 
United  States  and  some  of  the  Associate  Justices, 
the  Governor  of  Virginia  and  his  staff,  with  a  mili- 
tary escort,  and  many  others  of  National  reputation. 
The  exercises  were  most  satisfactory.  The  speeches 
of  the  President,  the  Governor  of  Virginia,  and  the 
Mayor  of  Fredericksburg  were  all  excellent,  and 
the  oration  of  Senator  Daniel  magnificent. 

"  The  monument  standing  up  against  the  blue 
sky  in  its  purity  and  gracefulness  elicited  universal 
approbation.  So  impressive  was  its  appearance 
that  the  Secretary  of  State  could  find  no  finer 
model  for  the  birthplace  of  George  Washington  at 
Wakefield  than  one  of  similar  design  but  five  inches 
taller.'  *  *  * 

"  We  have  tried  to  impress  upon  our  friends  that 
only  half  of  our  work  is  done.  We  must  build  a 
custodian's  house,  improve  the  four  acres  of  ground 
around  the  Monument  and  secure  an  Endowment 
Fund  sufficient  to  take  care  of  the  place.  Such  are 
the  conditions  of  our  deed  from  the  '  Mary  Wash- 
ington Monument  Association  of  Fredericks- 
burg.'  *  *  * 

"  Our  Hereditary  Life  Membership  has  been  the 
most  profitable  source  of  income  during  the  past 
year.  Our  Secretary's  report  will  show  the  number 


DE    PROFUNDIS.  175 

of  new  members  as  well  as  the  total.  The  Life 
Membership  is  twenty-five  dollars,  with  which  we 
give  a  silver  star.  If  a  member  prefers  a  gold  star 
it  is  furnished  by  paying  the  extra  cost  of  the  metal. 
An  amendment  to  the  by-laws  providing  for  these 
life  memberships  gives  the  members  the  right  to 
vote  at  our  several  meetings  on  and  after  February 
22nd,  1897,  and  it  is  expected  that  thereafter  the 
officers  of  the  Association  will  be  chosen  from  these 
members.  *  *  * 

"  I  would  suggest  the  appointment  of  a  Record- 
ing Secretary.  Our  present  Secretary  has  more  to 
do  than  her  strength  is  equal  to  in  her  correspond- 
ence. This  she  has  managed  most  admirably,  but 
the  duties  of  both  positions  are  too  mush  for  her. 

"AMELIA  C.  WAITE, 
"President   of  Ladies'   Board   of    National    Mary 

Washington  Association." 

According  to  this  recommendation  of  the 
President,  Miss  Mary  F.  Waite  was  elected 
Recording  Secretary  and  the  other  members 
of  the  Board  of  Managers  were  re-elected. 

It  was  resolved  at  a  Board  meeting  a  few 
days  later  to  proceed  at  once  with  the  erec- 
tion of  a  suitable  stone  house  on  the  Monu- 
ment Park  for  the  Custodian.  The  Secre- 
tary's report  for  the  year  showed  that  she  had 


176  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

deposited  with  the  Treasurer  $2000  before 
the  22d  of  February.  Since  the  annual  meet- 
ing she  had  received  $256.57  from  Mrs.  Lan- 
sing, Vice-President  for  New  York  State; 
$25  from  the  Gaspee  Chapter,  of  Providence, 
R.  I.,  and  $95  from  Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor, 
making  in  all  $3276.57.  In  addition  to  this 
amount  $3000  had  been  set  aside  for  the  En- 
dowment Fund. 

On  May  24,  1895,  Mrs.  Hetzel  received  a 
touching  and  eloquent  letter  from  Governor 
Dillingham,  of  Vermont,  telling  her  the  sad 
news  of  the  death  of  Mrs.  Dillingham,  one 
month  previous,  adding: 

"  You  know  enough  of  her  responsive  nature  to 
understand  that  she  was  no  ordinary  woman,  and 
you  will  pardon  me  if  I  add  that  in  all  that  goes  to 
make  life  grand  she  was  richly  endowed." 

When  one  remembers  with  what  energy 
and  enthusiasm  she  responded  to  the  first 
appeal  of  the  National  Association;  how 
promptly  she  sent  in  her  large  donation,  col- 
lected mostly  from  dollar  contributors,  and 
which  must  have  been  the  result  of  miraculous 
courage  and  industry,  one  cannot  but  feel 
strongly  the  truth  of  the  tribute  here  paid  her 


DE   PROFUNDIS.  177 

by  him  who  knew  and  loved  her  best.  Her 
name  will  always  be  endeared  to  the  Mary 
Washington  Association  as  the  first  Vice- 
President  to  respond  to  the  appeal  of  the 
Secretary  with  a  contribution  that  made  hers 
the  first  banner  state. 

Mrs.  Dillingham  was  the  fourth  Vice-Pres- 
ident to  be  called  away.  Mrs.  Faulkner,  of 
West  Virginia,  who  had  started  her  work 
with  great  energy  lived  but  a  few  months 
after  sending  in  her  first  donation.  Mrs. 
Cockrell,  of  Missouri,  fell  a  victim  to  a  sudden 
attack  of  pneumonia,  early  in  1893,  and  Mrs. 
Dundas  Lippincott,  of  Philadelphia,  who  had 
worked  with  untiring  zeal  in  that  city,  was, 
shortly  after  the  dedication  in  1894,  summer- 
ing at  Bar  Harbor,  having  left  Philadelphia 
during  a  heated  term.  Coming  too  suddenly 
into  the  bracing  air  of  Mount  Desert  she  was 
seized  with  a  sudden  illness,  and  expired  in  a 
few  days. 

.Miss  Susan  Carrington  Clarke,  the  Vice- 
President  for  Connecticut,  had  gone  to  At- 
lanta, to  attend  the  meeting  of  the  Daughters 
of  the  American  Revolution,  held  in  that 
city  during  their  Exposition.  She  had  just 

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178  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

arrived  when  she  was  attacked  with  what 
seemed  to  be  a  severe  cold,  but  which  proved 
to  be  a  mortal  disease. 

The  Secretary  of  the  N.  M.  W.  M.  A.  had 
received  only  a  few  days  previously  an  order, 
sent  by  Miss  Clarke,  through  Mrs.  Waite,  for 
two  gold  medals.  She  sent  her  reply  to 
the  officers  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Amer- 
can  Revolution,  knowing  that  Miss  Clarke 
was  on  her  way  to  the  Exposition.  Her  let- 
ter was  returned  unopened  by  the  Curator  of 
the  D.  A.  R.  office,  with  the  sad  news  of  Miss 
Clarke's  sudden  death  at  Atlanta  on  Octo- 
ber 20,  1895.  She  had  been  a  very  active 
worker.  As  State  Regent  of  Connecticut 
she  had  brought  the  Mary  Washington  cause 
before  her  Chapters,  and  she  had  many  plans 
for  increasing  the  fund. 

On  October  2Oth,  the  day  of  Miss  Clarke's 
death,  Mrs.  Hetzel  received  a  letter  from 
Washington,  telling  of  the  sudden  illness  of 
Mrs.  Waite.  Returning  from  a  summer  at 
the  old  home  in  Lyme,  Connecticut,  she 
had  reached  Washington,  and  was  on  her 
way  from  the  train  to  her  carriage,  when  she 
was  seized  with  vertigo,  followed  by  heart 


DE    PROFUNDIS.  179 

failure.  She  rallied  for  awhile,  and  lay  for 
four  months  very  ill,  tended  by  her  devoted 
daughter  and  her  many  dear  friends.  Her 
interest  in  the  Mary  Washington  Association 
seemed  to  be  the  one  subject  that  could  divert 
her  mind  from  her  physical  sufferings;  so 
great  was  her  sense  of  duty  and  responsi- 
bility. She  was  able  to  know  that  the  main 
building  of  the  Custodian's  cottage,  which 
she  had  made  her  special  work  for  that  year, 
was  finished  ;  to  approve  the  bills  presented, 
and  to  counsel  the  Board  of  Directors  to 
keep  intact  the  $3,000  set  aside  for  the  En- 
dowment Fund.  Such  was  the  interest  she 
showed  that  her  friends  on  the  Board  hoped 
for  recovery;  hoped  soon  again  to  see  her 
sweet  face,  to  hear  her  sage  advice  and  have 
her  once  more  among  them  as  a  true  and 
earnest  worker;  but  it  was  in  vain.  On  Feb- 
ruary 2ist,  at  ii  o'clock  p.  m.,  her  pure 
spirit  took  flight. 

This  loss  to  the  Society  cannot  be  esti- 
mated. It  seemed  a  personal  bereavement 
to  every  member : 

"  Like  a  summer- dried  fountain  when  our  need  was 
the  sorest." 


ISO  BUILDING   OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Her  death  was  felt  keenly  in  her  social 
life,  in  her  church  and  in  her  many  charities  ; 
especially  among  the  ladies  of  the  Epiphany 
Church  Home;  but  I  doubt  if  it  was  any 
where  more  deplored  than  by  this  Society,  to 
which  she  had  devoted  the  last  years  of  her 
life. 

The  next  day,  the  226.  day  of  February, 
was  the  day  of  the  regular  annual  meeting. 
As  it  had  been  impossible  to  give  the  neces- 
sary notice  on  account  of  the  illness  of  the 
President,  an  informal  meeting  of  Vice-Presi- 
dents  and  Hereditary  Life  Members  was  held 
at  the  Washington  Club  by  order  of  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Blair  Lee,  2nd  Vice-President. 
The  sad  news  of  the  death  of  our  beloved 
President  was  discussed  and  the  Secretary 
was  empowered  to  draw  up  resolutions  of 
condolence.  The  Secretary,  prostrated  by 
grief,  age,  and  ill  health,  was  unable  to  work 
for  some  time,  nor  were  any  of  the  directors 
ready  to  meet,  and  it  was  not  until  April  8th 
that  the  Board  met  and  elected  Miss  Waite 
President  to  succeed  her  mother. 


CHAPTER  XXVI. 

THE  HEREDITARY  LIFE  MEMBERS. 

IN  May,  1896,  the  Secretary,  by  order  of 
the  President,  Miss  Waite,  issued  an  Appeal 
to  the  Vice- Presidents  and  Hereditary  Life 
Members,  begging  them  to  send  in  their 
reports  and  lists  of  contributions  before 
February  22d,  1897,  to  be  deposited  in  the 
Custodian's  House;  also  urging  these  ladies 
to  interest  not  only  the  Daughters  and 
Dames,  but  all  patriotic  women  in  the  United 
States,  to  complete  the  work  they  had  so 
nobly  begun. 

Many  interesting  reports  were  sent  in 
response  by  State  Vice-Presidents.  From 
Mrs.  Lansing  of  Albany,  Mrs.  Mary  Wash- 
ington Keyser  of  Maryland,  Mrs.  Roger  A. 
Pryor  Vice- President  at  Large,  and  from 
Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Fairman  the  faithful  and  un- 
tiring Chairman  of  the  New  York  City 
Chapter,  D.  A.  R.  Admirable  work  was 
also  done  by  Mrs.  McCartney  of  Pennsylva- 
(181) 


1 82  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

nia,  and  Mrs.  Mather  of  New  Jersey,  though 
they  did  not  send  any  formal  reports. 

Among  the  responses  to  the  Appeal  was  a 
letter  from  Mrs.  W.  M.  Wilcox  of  Middle- 
town,  Connecticut,  showing  so  much  ability 
and  such  an  intelligent  interest  in  the  subject, 
that  the  Secretary  wrote  asking  her  to  accept 
the  office  of  Vice-President  for  Connecticut 
made  vacant  by  the  death  of  her  friend  and 
townswoman  Miss  Susan  Carrington  Clarke. 
Mrs.  Wilcox  accepted  and  commenced  her 
work  on  the  ist  of  June.  She  issued  Ap- 
peals to  all  the  Chapters  of  the  Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution  in  her  State,  with 
the  approval  of  Mrs.  Kinney  the  State 
Regent.  So  effective  was  her  work  that  she 
enlisted  32  Hereditary  Life  Members  in  six 
months  and  also  collected  a  large  sum  from 
other  sources. 

On  February  27th,  1897,  the  annual  meet- 
ing was  held  at  the  house  of  Miss  Davidge. 
It  was  the  first  official  meeting  of  the  Hered- 
itary Life  Members,  according  to  the  by-law 
that  said  they  were  privileged  to  vote  at  the 
Annual  meeting  on,  and  after  February  22d, 
1897- 


HEREDITARY    LIFE    MEMBERS.  183 

Miss  Mary  F.  Waite,  President  in  the 
Chair,  presented  her  report,  reading  an  ac- 
count of  the  disbursement  of  moneys  during 
the  past  year,  and  setting  forth  the  needs  of 
the  Society  for  a  larger  Endowment  Fund 
than  the  $3000  invested. 

The  Secretary's  report  was  then  read  giv- 
ing an  account  of  the  receipts  during  the  year 
and  the  reports  of  the  Vice-Presidents,  mak- 
ing especial  mention  of  the  work  done  by 
Mrs.  Wilcox,  of  Connecticut,  and  Mrs.  Miller, 
of  Massachusetts.  She  also  reported  the 
monument  built  and  paid  for,  the  Custodian's 
House  or  Monument  Lodge  also  built  and 
paid  for  and  Mrs.  Frances  B.  Goolrick,  a 
Fredericksburg  lady  of  distinguished  family 
and  of  great  intelligence  and  character  ap- 
pointed Custodian.  Mrs.  Goolrick  will  surely 
be  recognized  by  the  readers  of  this  little 
volume  on  account  of  her  earnest  work  in  the 
early  days  of  the  Society;  she  having  sent 
out  the  first  appeal  in  October,  1 889,  suggest- 
ing the  same  plan  of  organization  outlined  by 
Mrs.  Waite,  the  previous  June  and  put  in 
operation  during  the  summer  by  Mrs.  Hetzel. 

Miss  Waite  then  said  that  it  still  remained 


1 84  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

to  lay  out  and  enclose  the  park.  She  also 
read  a  letter  from  the  Custodian  asking  for 
some  necessary  work  for  the  Lodge.  These 
additions  were  approved  by  all  present. 

Miss  Hetzel  then  asked  that  some  recep- 
tacle might  be  placed  in  the  Board  Room  of 
the  Lodge  to  receive  the  records  of  member- 
ship and  the  reports  of  the  contributors.  Mrs. 
Wilcox  responded  that  the  Connecticut  ladies 
would  furnish  the  Board  room. 

Mrs.  Stoddard,  of  New  York,  proposed 
that  the  number  of  Hereditary  Life  Members 
should  be  extended  on  account  of  the  needs 
of  the  Society.  This  was  opposed  by  Mrs. 
Hall,  of  Pennsylvania,  and  other  ladies  on  the 
ground  that  it  would  cheapen  the  membership. 

The  President  ruled  that  that  motion,  re- 
quiring an  amendment  to  a  by-law,  could  only 
be  voted  upon  after  a  two-weeks'  notice  had 
been  sent  to  each  member.  The  votes  of 
absentees  could  be  sent  by  letter  over  each 
signature. 

Mrs.  Oglesby,  of  Louisiana,  offered  a  res- 
olution in  lieu  of  the  previous  motion:  "That 
each  Hereditary  Life  Member  pledge  herself 
to  contribute  $20  within  the  year."  This  was 


HEREDITARY    LIFE    MEMBERS.  185 

objected  to  by  several  Vice-Presidents  and 
original  members,  as  the  Hereditary  Life- 
Membership  insured  the  members  against  any 
further  tax,  and  they  had  so  pledged  them- 
selves. 

The  President  announced,  with  the  deepest 
regret,  that  the  Treasurer,  Mr.  E.  F.  Riggs 
had  been  forced  to  decline  re-election,  as  he 
was  about  to  leave  the  country,  adding: 

"  It  is  impossible  to  over-estimate  the  value  of 
his  services  to  the  Association  from  the  very  first 
inception  of  the  enterprise  until  now. 

"I  recommend  that  the  Board  put  on  record 
their  appreciation  of  all  he  has  done  and  the  loss 
they  sustain  at  his  resignation." 

Miss  Waite  then  resigned  as  President  of 
the  Society,  and  Mrs.  Mary  Washington 
Keyser  was  elected  her  successor. 

Miss  Hetzel  reported  the  resignation  of 
Mrs.  Emory  from  the  Board  of  Directors  on 
account  of  failing  health. 

In  addition  to  Mrs.  Keyser,  three  new 
members  were  then  elected  on  the  Board  of 
Directors :  Mrs,  Wilcox,  of  Connecticut ; 
Mrs.  Alger,  of  Michigan ;  and  Mrs.  Fleming, 
of  Virginia. 


1 86  BUILDING   OF   A    MONUMENT. 

Mr.  Blair  Lee  was  elected  Treasurer,  to 
succeed  E.  Francis  Riggs. 

Mrs.  Hetzel  resigned  as  Secretary  and 
Miss  Susan  Riviere  Hetzel  was  elected  her 
successor. 

The  meeting  then  adjourned  until  March 
1 5th. 

Resolutions  asking  that  the  Hereditary 
Life.Members  decide  on  a  limit  of  extension 
were  then  issued  by  the  Secretary  and  mailed 
to  all  Hereditary  Life  Members.  At  the  ad- 
journed meeting  on  March  i5th  the  votes 
were  counted.  Fifty-eight  had  been  received; 
of  these,  three  were  negatives,  opposed  to 
any  extension ;  eight  were  limited  to  less  than 
a  year;  the  remainder,  the  large  majority, 
fixed  no  limit,  but  left  it  to  the  discretion  of 
the  Board,  or  "until  the  necessary  amount 
should  be  raised." 

The  members  present  at  this  adjourned 
meeting,  after  careful  consideration  and  con- 
sultation, decided  to  limit  the  Hereditary  Life 
Memberships  to  600,  feeling  that  that  would 
have  been  the  amount  raised  had  it  not  been 
for  the  financial  depression  at  that  time.  The 
by-law  was  therefore  amended:  "No  medals 


HEREDITARY    LIFE    MEMBERS.  187 

will  be  given  out  after  the  members  number 
six  hundred." 

Of  the  four  members  of  the  Board  elected 
on  February  27th,  Mrs.  Wilcox  and  Mrs. 
Fleming  accepted ;  Mrs.  Alger  did  not  re- 
spond; Mrs.  Keyser,  after  careful  considera- 
tion, found  herself  obliged  to  decline. 

At  a  called  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Di- 
rectors on  April  i2th  the  following  officers 
were  elected: 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Blair  Lee,  President,  to  suc- 
ceed Mrs.  Mary  Washington  Keyser,  re- 
signed. 

Mrs.  Eleanor  Washington  Howard,  ist 
Vice- President,  to  succeed  Mrs.  Matilda  W. 
Emory,  resigned. 

Mrs.  Emily  W.  Fleming,  2d  Vice-President, 
to  succeed  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Blair  Lee. 

In  February,  1898,  the  day  before  the 
Annual  Meeting  of  the  Mary  Washington 
Association,  the  sad  news  was  received  of 
the  death  of  their  legal  adviser,  Mr.  Reginald 
Fendall.  Major  Robert  W.  Hunter  was 
elected  his  successor,  at  the  next  meeting  of 
the  Board  of  Directors. 

At    the    Annual    Meeting    in    1899,    the 


1 88  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

vacancy  on  the  Board  caused  by  the  resigna- 
tion of  Mr.  Riggs,  and  the  election  of  Mr. 
Blair  Lee  to  the  office  of  Treasurer  was 
brought  up.  Mr.  Shepherd,  of  Fredericks- 
burg,  who  donated  the  land  around  the 
monument,  on  which  the  Lodge  now  stands 
was  unanimously  elected  to  this  office.  Mr. 
Shepherd  said  that  he  could  not  accept  the 
office,  and  at  the  meeting  in  1901  Professor 
Marcus  Benjamin  was  unanimously  elected 
to  fill  the  vacancy. 

For  many  years  Mrs.  Pry  or  was  the  only 
Vice-President  at  Large,  but  it  was  found  ne- 
cessary to  appoint  more  ladies  for  that  work. 
Miss  Desha  resigned  the  Vice-Presidency  of 
Kentucky  because  she  was  no  longer  a  resi- 
dent of  that,  her  native  State.  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Holmes  Lindsay  then  became  Vice-President 
from  Kentucky,  and  Miss  Desha  continued 
her  work  as  Vice-President  at  Large. 

Mrs.  Edward  Roby  of  Chicago,  who  did 
such  signal  service  at  the  World's  Fair,  was 
asked  to  work  with  Mrs.  Trumbull  as  Vice- 
President  for  Illinois,  as  Mrs.  Trumbull  re- 
turned to  Connecticut  when  she  became  a 
widow;  but  Mrs.  Roby,  unwilling  to  interfere 


HEREDITARY    LIFE    MEMBERS.  189 

in  Mrs.  Trumbull's  work,  preferred  to  be 
Vice-President  at  Large,  and  she  has  enlisted 
many  valuable  members  from  all  over  the 
country. 

Mrs.  Chauncey  Stoddard  of  Plattsburg, 
N.  Y.,  also  worked  with  such  success  in  the 
East  and  the  West  that  she  was  appointed  a 
Vice-President  at  Large,  and  she  has  gathered 
in  members  from  many  places. 


CHAPTER  XXVII. 

PRESENTATIONS    AND   DONATIONS. 

THE  Articles  of  Incorporation  of  the  Na- 
tional Mary  Washington  Memorial  Associa- 
tion state  that  "  the  Association  was  organized 
for  the  purpose  of  erecting  a  suitable  monu- 
ment to  Mary,  the  mother  of  George  Wash- 
ington and  maintaining  and  preserving  the 
same  in  perpetuity." 

With  this  object  the  Hereditary  Life  Mem- 
berships were  instituted:  as  a  sure  means  of 
securing  a  perpetual  Guard  of  Honor  for  the 
tomb  of  Mary  Washington,"  in  the  eloquent 
language  of  the  originator,  Mrs.  Pryor. 

Representative  women  all  over  the  country 
have  been  enlisted  to  carry  out  the  objects  of 
the  Society.  That  sacred  duty  is  to  descend 
to  daughter,  granddaughter  or  to  any  heir 
designated  by  the  member.  A  list  of  the 
Hereditary  Life  Members  will  be  appended 
to  this  volume.  It  will  be  seen  that  very  few 
States  are  unrepresented  and  we  hope  before 
(190) 


PRESENTATIONS    AND    DONATIONS. 

the  list  is  closed  to  have  every  State  and  Ter- 
ritory on  record. 

One  very  interesting  feature  of  the  Asso- 
ciation has  been  the  presentations  of  the 
Hereditary  Life  Memberships.  The  first  to 
receive  that  honor  was,  most  appropriately, 
Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor.  At  the  grand  ball  at 
the  White  Sulphur  Springs,  which  she  sug- 
gested and  projected,  the  membership  was 
presented  by  the  managers  of  the  ball,  and 
the  beautiful  star  of  the  Mary  Washington 
Association  first  appeared,  worn  by  the 
woman  who  first  proposed  the  Hereditary 
Life  Memberships.  Medals  were  also  pre- 
sented to  Mrs.  Annie  Camm,  Miss  Mary 
Custis  Lee  and  General  Charles  Anderson. 

During  the  summer  of  1893,  two  medals 
were  presented  to  the  honored  guests  of  the 
Nation:  The  Duchess  de  Veragua  and  the 
Infanta  Eulalia.  The  star  was  presented  to 
the  Duchess  de  Veragua  by  Mrs.  Martha 
Mitchell,  of  Florida,  through  Mrs.  Pryor; 
that  of  the  Infanta  Eulalia  was  conferred  by 
Mrs.  Pryor  herself.  Beautiful  letters  of  ac- 
knowledgement were  received  from  these 
ladies  and  the  Duchesse  de  Veragua  called 


1 92  BUILDING   OF    A    MONUMENT. 

on  Mrs.  Pryor,  to  express  her  gratification, 
accompanied  by  the  Duke  and  all  her  suite. 

The  Mount  Vernon  Chapter  of  Virginia 
was  the  first  to  present  a  medal  to  its  Regent : 
Miss  Eliza  Selden  Washington,  daughter  of 
John  Augustine  Washington,  of  Mount  Ver- 
non. This  is  one  of  the  fourteen  descend- 
ants of  Mary  Washington  among  the  Hered- 
itary Life  Members.  The  Washington  family 
have  been  among  the  most  earnest  workers 
for  the  cause;  one  especially,  Mrs.  Mary 
Washington  Keyser  of  Baltimore.  It  is 
hardly  necessary  to  again  tell  of  all  she  has 
done  to  honor  the  memory  of  her  great  an- 
cestress. The  membership  of  Miss  Eugenia 
Washington  was  a  testimonial  from  two 
relatives  and  a  devoted  friend. 

The  Irondequoit  Chapter  of  Rochester 
presented  a  medal  to  its  Regent,  Mrs.  Caro- 
line Crafts  Little.  Mrs.  Little  originated  the 
idea  that  all  the  Chapters  of  New  York  State 
should  present  a  membership  to  their  State 
Regent.  Miss  Mary  Isabella  Forsyth  was 
the  first  State  Regent  to  receive  this  testi- 
monial ;  the  star  has  since  been  conferred  on 
her  two  successors,  Mrs.  Belden  and  Mrs. 
Verplanck. 


PRESENTATIONS    AND    DONATIONS.  1  93 

In  April,  1894,  just  before  the  Dedication 
of  the  Monument,  a  star  was  presented  to 
Mrs.  Letitia  Green  Stevenson,  President- 
General  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  by  two  Virginia  Chapters — the 
Albemarle  Chapter  of  Charlottesville,  and 
the  Margaret  Lynn  Lewis  of  Roanoke.  It 
was  the  beautiful  thought  of  the  Regents  of 
these  two  Chapters — Mrs.  Mary  Stuart  Smith 
and  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Lelia  B.  Cocke, 
descendants  of  Mary  Washington. 

When  the  time  arrived  for  the  unveiling  of 
the  monument  a  medal  was  presented  to 
Mrs.  J.  Burrows  Green,  only  surviving  child 
of  Silas  Burrows,  the  donor  of  the  first  monu- 
ment. The  medal  was  the  gift  of  Mrs. 
Roger  A.  Pryor,  Mrs.  John  Townshend  and 
Mrs.  Charles  Senff  of  New  York,  and  was 
purchased  on  the  day  and  hour  that  the 
Monument  was  dedicated.  The  gift  was 
accompanied  with  many  exquisite  flowers 
and  was  received  by  Mrs.  Greene  with  thanks 
and  tears. 

The  New  York  City  Chapter  which  has 
done  such  admirable  work  under  its  efficient 
and  untiring  Chairman,  Mrs.  James  Fairman, 
13 


194  BUILDING   OF   A    MONUMENT. 

celebrated  the  6th  of  January,  the  anniversary 
of  the  wedding  of  George  Washington  and 
Martha  Custis,  by  presenting  the  Mary 
Washington  star  to  their  popular  and  gifted 
Regent,  Mrs.  Donald  McLean. 
In  the  words  of  the  Chronicle : 

"  A  gold  medal  with  Hereditary  Life  Member- 
ship in  the  National  Mary  Washington  Memorial 
Association,  was  presented  to  Mrs.  Donald  McLean, 
Regent  of  New  York  City  Chapter  Daughters  of 
American  Revolution,  at  Sherry's  on  the  sixth  of 
January,  1896,  at  the  celebration  of  Washington's 
Wedding  Day.  The  officers  of  the  New  York  City 
Chapter  were  present. 

"The  Chairman  of  the  Mary  Washington  Fund 
for  the  New  York  City  Chapter,  Mrs.  James  Fair- 
man,  represented  the  Chapter  that  bestowed  the 
gift  and  made  the  presentation  address. 

"  The  Medal  was  accepted  by  the  Regent,  who  at 
the  social  which  followed  expressed  her  gratitude 
-and  appreciation  of  the  tribute. 

"Among  those  present  were  Mrs.  Adlai  Steven- 
son [then  President  General  of  the  Daughter  of  the 
American  Revolution],  who  was  the  guest  of  honor, 
General  Horace  Porter  and  Charles  Dudley 
Warner." 

A  few  days  after  Mrs.  McLean  received 


PRESENTATIONS    AND    DONATIONS.          1 95 

the  medal,  she   sent  the  following  felicitous 
acknowledgment : 

"  MY  DEAR  MRS.  FAIRMAN: 

"This  beautiful  Star  [of  the  Mary  Washington 
Association]  engraved  in  letters  unfading  in  the 
gold  and  upon  the  tablets  of  my  heart,  and  keeping 
fresh  and  green  the  date  which  will  ever  hereafter 
be  precious  to  me  personally,  as  well  as  interesting 
historically,  will  thro'out  my  life  typify  to  me  the 
radiance  of  tender  friendship. 

"To  my  children  and  their  followers,  this  badge 
of  membership  in  so  honorable  a  society  will  be 
more  and  more  valuable  as  generation  succeeds 
generation.  When  I  contemplate  all  that  the  digni- 
fied and  beautiful  symbol  signifies — historically  and 
to  me — I  find  no  adequate  words  for  the  exceeding 
gratitude  that  stirs  within  me.  Pray  believe  in  its 
depth  and  sincerity  my  dear  Mrs.  Fairman,  and  also 
that  I  am  but  more  appreciative  because  your  hands 
presented  me  with  the  exquisite  insignia — your 
hands  which  have  worked  so  faithfully  and  with  so 
fine  results  for  the  great  monument.  Your  hands 
which  have  never  been  outstretched  to  me  save  in 
loyal  greeting  and  leal  support. 

"  Whatever  work  I  may  have  performed  for  our 
beloved  Chapter  is  rewarded  thousandfold  by  the 
most  happy  surprise  on  that  Wedding  Day,  Janu- 
ary 6th,  1896. 


196  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

"  The  dainty  satin  case  of  my  badge  [how  proud 
I  feel]  is  bride-like  in  its  purity.  Once  more  with 
all  my  heart,  I  thank  you  and  your  sister  donors. 
I  am  in  the  past,  in  the  present  year,  and  in  all  to 
come, 

"  Your  constant  friend  and  devoted  Regent, 

"  EMILY  N.  RITCHIE  MCLEAN. 
"  January  6,  1896." 

"In  1895,  it  was  the  desire  of  some  of  the 
oldest  members  of  the  D.  A.  R.  Society  in 
New  York,  to  show  their  appreciation  and 
recognition  of  the  enthusiastic  work  and  the 
untiring  energy  of  Mrs.  J.  Heron  Crosman. 
Accordingly,  thirty-five  ladies  united  to  pur- 
chase a  star  of  the  N.  M.  W.  M.  A.  and  to 
bestow  it  upon  Mrs.  Crosman,  making  her  a 
Life  Member  of  the  National  Society.  The 
star  was  purchased  in  Washington  on  Febru- 
ary 22,  1896,  during  the  session  of  the  Con- 
tinental Congress.  It  was  formally  presented 
to  Mrs.  Crosman  early  in  March,  in  the  par- 
lors of  the  Buckingham  Hotel,  New  York 
City,  by  Miss  Vanderpoel,  who,  in  beautiful 
words  of  loving  commendation,  paid  a  glow- 
ing tribute  to  Mrs.  Crosman's  devoted  ser- 
vices to  the  National  Society  of  the  D.  A.  R. 


PRESENTATIONS    AND    DONATIONS.          197 

In  accepting  the  emblem,  Mrs.  Crosman 
dwelt  upon  the  patriotic  work  and  objects  of 
the  Society,  and  paid  an  exquisite  tribute,  in 
words  of  rare  eloquence,  to  the  memory  of 
Mary,  the  mother  of  Washington. 

"In  thanking  her  friends,  she  said:  'Long 
time  ago,  hundreds  of  years  before  our  Revo- 
lutionary heroes  were  born,""an  Oriental  poet, 
in  the  land  of  the  palm  and  the  date  tree, 
said:  "Blessed  is  the  man  who  can  say:  'I 
have  one  true  friend.'"  How  blessed  am  I 
to-day,  to  look  in  the  faces  of  thirty-five  loyal 
friends  and  true,  who,  with  generous  hands, 
have  held  out  to  me  their  golden  star,  as  a 
token  of  their  love  and  regard.' 

"A  few  days  after  this  presentation,  there 
was  sent  to  the  Committee,  to  be  presented 
to  Mrs.  Crosman,  a  beautiful  bar  from  which 
to  hang  this  star;  especially  made  to  order 
by  Tiffany,  blending  in  blue  and  white  enamel, 
the  D.  A.  R.  colors,  and  studded  with  sap- 
phires, an  ornament  of  intrinsic  value,  as 
well  as  of  significance,  in  memory  of  one  of 
the  first  Life  Members  of  the  National  So- 
ciety, to  be  worn  with  the  star  as  part  of  the 
presentation  gift." 


198  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

The  Mahwenavvasigh  Chapter  of  Pough- 
keepsie,  N.  Y.,  conferred  a  membership  on 
their  Regent,  Mrs.  Edward  Storrs  Atwater, 
in  1897,  and  in  1900  a  medal  was  presented 
by  the  Chapter  to  Miss  Myra  Hubbard 
Avery. 

The  Saranac  Chapter  has  presented 
medals  to  three  successive  Regents,  Mrs. 
Stoddard,  Mrs.  Meyer  and  Mrs.  Gamble. 

On  the  1 9th  of  January,  1895,  tne  third 
anniversary  of  the  Mary  Washington  Colo- 
nial Chapter  of  New  York  City,  a  medal  was 
presented  by  the  Chapter  to  its  beloved 
Regent,  Miss  Mary  Van  Buren  Vanderpoel. 
The  presentation  was  made  by  the  Rev. 
Charles  Russell  Treat,  Chaplain  of  the  Chap- 
ter. It  was  received  with  much  appreciation 
by  Miss  Vanderpoel,  and  will  be,  she  said, 
ever  considered  by  her  as  one  of  her  most 
valued  treasures.  On  every  Memorial  Day 
the  Mary  Washington  Colonial  Chapter  dec- 
orates the  grave  of  her  Chapter  heroine  with 
fresh  flowers. 

The  efficient  and  popular  State  Regent  of 
Connecticut,  Mrs  Kinney,  received  the  gift 
of  a  star  from  all  the  Chapters  of  her  State. 


PRESENTATIONS    AND    DONATIONS.          199 

This  was  the  work  of  the  Vice-President, 
Mrs.  Wilcox.  The  Mary  Clapp  Wooster 
Chapter  of  New  Haven,  conferred  the  mem- 
bership on  Mrs.  Delia  T.  Audubon  Tyler, 
and  the  Wadsworth  Chapter,  of  which  Mrs. 
Wilcox  is  Regent,  presented  a  medal  to  Mrs. 
Mary  Hubbard  Bunce. 

Mrs.  Joseph  McWilliams,  St.  Paul,  Minn., 
had  a  medal  presented  by  the  Nathan  Hale 
Chapter  in  1898.  The  same  year,  the  Min- 
neapolis Chapter  conferred  a  membership  on 
Mrs.  Charlotte  Ouisconsin  Van  Cleve,  the 
pioneer  of  that  city. 

Born  on  the  route,  at  Fort  Crawford,  on 
the  Ouisconsin  River,  the  child  of  an  officer 
of  the  regiment  ordered  to  establish  a  post 
in  that  wild  region,  she  was  two  months  old 
when  she  was  brought  to  her  future  home, 
where  shortly  after  old  Fort  Snelling  was 
built.  She  has  written  a  record  of  her 
"three-score  years  and  ten,"  called  the  "Life 
Long  Memories  of  Fort  Snelling,"  an  invalu- 
able chronicle  of  the  life  and  growth  of  "  The 
Old  Northwest." 

Nor  was  the  New  Northwest  silent  during 
the  winter  of  1898.  While  the  aged  pioneer 


2OO  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

was  honored  in  Minnesota,  a  message  from 
the  children  was  sent  across  the  continent. 
In  San  Francisco  the  Valentine  Holt  Society 
of  the  Children  of  the  American  Revolution 
sent  to  the  Mary  Washington  Association  on 
the  22d  of  February,  a  gift  of  $40,  of  which 
$35  were  devoted  to  making  a  hereditary 
Life  Member  of  their  President,  Mrs.  S. 
Isabelle  Hubbard,  one  of  the  best  workers  for 
the  Mary  Washington  cause  on  the  Pacific 
Coast. 

The  Caesar  Rodney  Chapter  of  Wilming- 
ton, Delaware,  presented  a  star  to  its  Regent, 
Miss  Sophie  Waples. 

Two  Chapters  in  Massachusetts  have  con- 
ferred memberships  on  their  Regents.  The 
John  Adams  Chapter,  on  Miss  Floretta  Vin- 
ing;  the  Fort  Massachusetts  on  Mrs.  Mary 
F.  Richmond.  The  Massachusetts  Daughters 
have  also  presented  medals  to  three  State 
Regents :  Mrs.  Fuller,  Miss  Daggett  and 
Miss  Winslow  ;  Mrs.  Fuller's  was  the  gift  of 
the  State  delegation  at  the  Continental  Con- 
gress ;  Mrs.  Daggett's  was  presented  through 
the  Vice- President,  Mrs.  Ida  Farr  Miller,  and 
that  of  Miss  Winslow  by  many  Chapter  Re- 
gents, through  Miss  Vining. 


PRESENTATIONS    AND    DONATIONS.          2OI 

In  1897,  Mrs.  S.  V.  White,  of  Brooklyn, 
became  a  Hereditary  Life  Member.  Mrs. 
White  is  well  known  for  patriotic  and  philan- 
thropic work,  especially  in  connection  with 
the  memorial  to  the  Prison  Ship  Martyrs. 
She  was  one  of  the  early  contributors  and 
promoters  of  the  Mary  Washington  cause, 
and  when  she  joined  the  Society,  she  at  once 
went  to  work  with  the  single-heartedness  for 
which  she  is  well  known.  She  enlisted  many 
friends,  among  others,  Mrs.  Emily  Warren 
Roebling,  of  New  Jersey.  She  had  a  star 
presented  to  Mrs.  Daniel  T.  Wilson,  of 
Brooklyn,  for  long  service  on  the  committee 
of  Home  and  Country  in  the  Chiropean  Club 
of  Brooklyn. 

In  1898,  she,  as  Chairman  of  the  Martyrs 
Monument  Committee,  D.  A.  R.,  offered  a 
prize  to  that  member  of  the  Society  of  Chil- 
dren of  American  Revolution  who  should 
during  the  year  raise  the  largest  contribution 
for  the  Monument  to  the  Martyrs  of  the 
Prison  Ships  of  the  American  Revolution. 
The  prize,  a  Mary  Washington  medal,  was 
awarded  in  1899,  to  John  Christy  Giles,  Jr., 
of  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


2O2  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

On  the  same  day,  February  22,  1899,  a 
medal  was  presented  to  Mrs.  Daniel  Lothrop 
by  the  New  York  officers  of  the  Children  of 
the  American  Revolution,  in  recognition  of 
her  patriotic  work  in  founding  the  Society, 
and  her  long  and  faithful  service  for  the 
organization. 

Two  days  after  this  presentation  to  the  be- 
loved President  of  the  children,  on  February 
24,  1899,  tne  star  was  presented  to  Mrs. 
McKinley  by  the  Ohio  delegation  to  the  Con- 
tinental Congress  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution.  The  presentation  took 
place  in  the  Blue  Room  of  the  White  House 
and  was  a  most-  graceful  and  elegant  cere- 
mony. Mrs.  McKinley,  enthroned  in  a 
spreading  arm  chair,  exquisitely  gowned  in 
light  silk  trimmed  with  rare  lace  and  chiffon, 
looked  as  fair  and  pure  as  a  white  lily.  The 
Ohio  ladies  led  by  Mrs.  Rathbone,  were  first 
received  by  the  President  and  Mrs.  McKinley ; 
many  being  old  and  dear  friends ;  they  were 
followed  by  the  ladies  of  the  Mary  Washing- 
ton Association  led  by  Mrs.  Eleanor  Wash- 
ington Howard  and  Miss  Susan  Riviere 
Hetzel. 


PRESENTATIONS    AND    DONATIONS.          2O3 

Mrs.  Rathbone  made  a  short  and  eloquent 
address  presenting  the  medal  and  reading  the 
inscription:  "  Ida  Saxton  McKinley."  When 
she  handed  it  to  Mrs.  McKinley  she  admired 
in  greatly  and  asked  Mrs.  Rathbone  to  pin  it 
on  to  her  breast.  She  was  then  welcomed 
into  the  Mary  Washington  Association  by  the 
members  present,  the  descendants  of  Mary 
Washington,  Mrs.  Hunter,  Mrs,  Howard, 
Mrs.  Finch  and  Miss  Eugenia  Washington 
being  specially  presented ;  and  the  wife  of  the 
Executive  became  a  member  of  the  Society 
organized  in  honor  of  the  mother  of  his  first 
and  greatest  predecessor. 

Mrs.  McKinley's  enjoyment  of  that  presen- 
tation and  the  President's  gratification  and 
delight  in  her  enjoyment  will  always  be  a 
tender  memory  to  all  present.  The  knightly 
devotion  and  watchful  care  that  has  so  en- 
deared our  lamented  President  to  this  Nation, 
and  has  left  us  such  a  shining  example  of  con- 
jugal love  was  never  more  touchingly  shown 
than  on  that  occasion. 


CHAPTER  XXVIII. 

THE    MONUMENT    LODGE. 

DURING  the  memorable  summer  of  1898 
very  little  could  be  done  towards  completing 
the  Endowment  Fund  of  the  Mary  Washing- 
ton Association.  On  account  of  the  war 
with  Spain  no  circulars  or  appeals  were  sent 
out  by  the  Secretary.  Nothing  could  be 
thought  of  or  asked  for  but  aid  for  the 
wounded  and  comforts  for  the  dying.  The 
work  of  the  patriotic  women  of  this  land, 
daughters,  dames  and  many  others,  singly 
and  collectively,  is  one  of  the  most  glorious 
pages  in  the  history  of  American  woman- 
hood. The  work  of  the  War  Relief  Com- 
mittee of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  as  told  in  the  second  volume  of 
the  Smithsonian  Report,  shows  the  work  of 
that  society,  and  sister  societies  were  no  less 
energetic  and  useful. 

Two  visits  were  made  to  the  monument 
grounds  that  year.  One  in  May,  appointed 
by  the  President,  Mrs.  Lee,  just  before  war 
(204) 


THE    MONUMENT    LODGE.  2O5 

was  declared,  consisted  of  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Washington  Howard  and  Miss  Desha. 
The  Lodge,  a  small  stone  cottage  Colonial 
design,  was  examined,  a  granite  coping  to 
enclose  the  grounds  was  decided  upon,  the 
grading  of  the  road  was  provided  for  and 
other  necessary  work  on  the  grounds  and 
lodge  was  recommended. 

On  November  pth,  after  the  war,  the  visit- 
ing committee,  consisting  of  Mrs.  Eleanor 
Washington  Howard,  Miss  Desha,  Mrs. 
Brockett,  and  Miss  Hetzel  again  went  to 
Fredericksburg  and  inspected  the  monument 
and  grounds.  Mrs.  Howard,  the  last  daugh- 
ter of  the  Washingtons  born  at  Mount  Ver- 
non,  brought  willows  from  the  grave  of  her 
renowned  great-uncle,  and  planted  them 
around  the  grave  of  his  mother,  her  honored 
ancestress. 

Another  child  of  Mary  Washington  was 
remembered  on  that  day.  A  new  Chapter  of 
the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution 
was  started,  which  bears  the  name  of  Betty 
Washington  Lewis.  Mrs.  Page,  the  State 
Regent  of  Virginia,  came  from  Norfolk  and 
met  her  colleagues,  Mrs.  Brockett,  Vice-Pres- 


2O6  BUILDING   OF   A    MONUMENT. 

ident  General,  in  charge  of  organization ; 
of  Chapters ;  Miss  Susan  Riviere  Hetzel, 
Registrar  General;  and  Miss  Mary  Desha, 
Founder.  A  delightful  meeting  was  held  at 
the  hotel,  and  many  members  were  enlisted. 
Mrs.  William  Key  Howard  was  appointed 
Regent.  She  is  the  present  owner  of  Betty 
Lewis'  beautiful  mansion,  and  a  few  weeks' 
later  the  Chapter  organized  in  that  historic 
home.  Greatly  to  the  regret  of  all,  Mrs. 
Howard  was  obliged  to  resign  soon  after,  and 
Mrs.  Goolrick,  the  Custodian  of  the  Monu- 
ment, was  elected  her  successor. 

The  handsome  Colonial  furniture  collected 
by  Mrs.  Wilcox  for  the  Board  Room — now 
called  the  Connecticut  Room — was  greatly 
admired  by  the  committee;  so  much  so  that 
a  few  weeks  later,  at  the  State  Conference  of 
the  Virginia  Daughters,  a  resolution  was 
passed  to  furnish  a  Virginia  Room.  Unfor- 
tunately, the  ladies  of  the  Mary  Washington 
Association  were  not  able  to  accept  this  kind 
offer,  greatly  to  their  regret.  The  Lodge  is 
very  small  and  the  Connecticut  Room  is  the 
only  room  that  belongs  exclusively  to  the  As- 
sociation ;  the  rest  of  the  house  is  the  home 


THE    MONUMENT    LODGE.  2O7 

of  the  Custodian.  Mrs.  Schultz,  of  New  Jer- 
sey, an  earnest  friend  and  member  expressed 
a  wish  that  New  Jersey  should  have  a  room, 
and  I  am  sure  that  would  be  the  wish  of  many 
states,  and  it  is  a  great  pity  that  there  are  no 
more  rooms  to  furnish  at  the  Monument 
Lodge,  as  at  Mount  Vernon,  but  the  house  is 
too  small  as  it  was  only  built  for  a  lodge. 

In  May,  1899,  tne  Hereditary  Life  Mem- 
bers in  response  to  a  resolution  passed  at  the 
annual  meeting,  were  all  summoned  to  Fred- 
ericksburg  to  meet  around  the  tomb  of  Mary 
Washington. 

The  ladies  who  responded  to  this  invitation 
were  met  by  a  deputation  of  gentlemen  at  the 
Fredericksburg  station,  where  carriages  were 
in  waiting  to  take  them  to  the  monument. 
At  the  Lodge  they  were  enthusiastically  wel- 
comed by  Mrs.  Goolrick,  the  Custodian,  and 
Mrs.  Fleming,  Vice-President  of  the  National 
Association.  They  were  then  presented  to 
Mrs.  Charles  Wallace,  the  President  of  the 
Fredericksburg  Monument  Association,  who, 
assisted  by  a  bevy  of  charming  women  and 
beautiful  girls  with  a  fair  sprinkling  of  the 
male  sex  entertained  the  company. 


2O8  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

After  viewing  and  admiring  the  beautiful 
monument,  they  were  invited  to  a  bountiful 
luncheon  at  the  Lodge,  given  by  the  Freder- 
icksburg  ladies.  After  luncheon  all  gathered 
on  Oratory  Rock,  that  spot  so  sacred  to  Mary 
Washington's  hours  of  prayer.  There  an 
address  of  welcome  was  delivered  by  Hon. 
William  A.  Little,  followed  by  a  very  interest- 
ing paper  written  and  read  by  Mrs.  Louise 
Levering  Weber,  of  Philadelphia,  on  the  work 
of  the  women  of  the  United  States  and  what 
they  had  accomplished  in  the  Mount  Vernon 
Association  and  the  Mary  Washington  Asso- 
ciation. 

The  wall  enclosing  the  park,  the  latest  work 
of  the  Association  was  then  examined  and 
approved.  It  is  a  very  low  wall,  hardly  more 
than  a  coping,  but  it  is  built  of  the  same  beau- 
tiful Virginia  granite  as  the  Lodge,  and  is  in 
perfect  keeping  with  the  house  and  the  monu- 
ment. Mrs.  Schultz,  of  New  Jersey,  planted 
a  fine  hydrangea  near  the  Lodge.  The 
Lodge  itself  was  also  much  admired,  espec- 
ially the  Connecticut  Room  with  its  treasures 
of  antique  furniture  and  bric-a-brac. 

After  a  drive  to   the   National   Cemetery 


THE    MONUMENT    LODGE.  2OQ 

[the  battle-field,  Marye's  Heights]  the  day 
concluded  with  a  tea  at  Mary  Washington's 
house  to  which  the  ladies  were  invited  by  the 
Fredericksburg  branch  of  the  A.  P.  V.  A.:  the 
Association  for  the  Preservation  of  Virginia 
Antiquities.  In  1890,  this  Association  bought 
the  old  home  and  had  it  put  in  perfect  order. 

Among  the  Hereditary  Life  Members  in  the 
party  were  two  great- great-granddaughters 
of  Mary  Washington :  Mrs.  Fanny  Washing- 
ton Finch  and  Miss  Eugenia  Washington. 
Fredericksburg  was  Miss  Washington's  for- 
mer home  and  at  every  turn  she  was  greeted 
by  old  friends.  At  Mary  Washington's  house 
these  ladies  were  constantly  reminded  of 
some  anecdote  or  tradition  learned  from  par- 
ents or  grandparents.  With  them  we  wan- 
dered through  the  cottage  and  the  old  garden, 
where  little  is  left  of  "  Old  Madam's"  careful 
tending  except  the  high  box  hedges,  which 
must  have  stood  there  when  she  welcomed 
Lafayette  in  her  gardening  outfit. 

The  tea,  served  by  the  youngest  and  pret- 
tiest young  girls  of  the  A.  P.  V.  A,  was  fol- 
lowed by  songs,  recitations  and  an  impromptu 
dance  in  which  old  and  young  joined  and 


2IO  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

made  the  evening  pass  away  all  too  soon. 
When  the  ominous  news  of  the  approach  of 
"train  time"  came,  the  rich,  sweet  voice  of 
Mrs.  McKnight  Moses  led  the  chorus  of  the 
"Star  Spangled  Banner"  and  "Auld  Lang 
Syne,"  and  with  kind  farewells  the  ladies  left 
for  Washington,  hoping  to  be  able  to  go  an- 
other day  and  bring  with  them  more  mem- 
bers to  see  the  Monument,  enjoy  the  many 
reminiscences  of  that  historic  town  and  the 
never  failing  hospitality  of  Old  Virginia. 

In  September,  1899,  the  Secretary  made 
another  visit  to  Fredericksburg.  She  spent 
three  days  at  the  Monument  Lodge,  with  her 
kind  hostess,  Mrs.  Goolrick.  While  there 
she  deposited  in  the  old  Colonial  secretary 
placed  by  Mrs.  Wilcox  in  the  Connecticut 
Room,  the  reports  of  the  early  Vice-Presi- 
dents  and  the  lists  of  all  contributors  who  had 
registered  their  names.  Mrs.  Fleming,  the 
Second  Vice-President,  was  present  when 
these  records  of  the  Monument  Builders  were 
placed  in  the  desk. 

This  had  long  been  a  cherished  wish  of 
Miss  Hetzel.  At  the  annual  meeting  of  1897 
she  had  asked  that  a  depository  might  be  fur- 


THE    MONUMENT    LODGE.  211 

nished  for  these  early  records.  Anything  to 
hold  papers;  a  desk,  a  cabinet  or  even  a 
chest,  for  it  had  been  a  pledge  to  the  builders 
of  the  Monument  that  their  names  should  be 
enrolled  at  the  Monument  Lodge. 

The  Fredericksburg  Mary  Washington 
Monument  Association,  after  giving  the 
ground,  donated  to  them  by  Mr.  Shepherd, 
to  the  National  Association,  and  having  done 
so  large  a  part  towards  the  building  of  the 
Monument,  resolved  to  erect  another  memor- 
ial to  Mary  Washington;  and  the  Mary 
Washington  Hospital  is  now  an  important  in- 
stitution in  Fredericksburg.  And  thus  is  the 
memory  of  our  greatest  heroine  kept  green  ; 
not  only  by  an  enduring  obelisk  from  the 
women  of  her  country,  but  by  a  living  charity 
from  her  townswomen  in  her  old  home. 


CHAPTER  XXIX. 

IN  MEMORIAM. 

ON  the  morning  of  December  25,  1899,  in 
the  early  morning,  2:30  a.  m.,  Mrs.  Margaret 
Hetzel  passed  away,  in  the  85th  year  of  her 
age. 

She  had  striven  faithfully  during  the  last 
two  years  of  her  life  to  keep  up  her  work  for 
the  Mary  Washington  Association.  Though 
broken  in  health  and  spirit  by  the  loss  of  her 
beloved  friend  and  co-worker,  Mrs.  Waite,  in 
1896,  she  continued  the  duties  of  Secretary 
for  another  year.  After  she  resigned  in  1897 
she  continued  in  charge  of  the  Hereditary 
Life  Memberships  until  she  could  no  longer 
do  the  work.  Repeated  attacks  of  grippe  at 
her  advanced  age  finally  undermined  her 
constitution  and  impaired  her  vigorous  intel- 
lect. Still,  so  continued  was  her  interest  in 
the  cause  that  she  insisted  on  assisting  in 
sending  the  notices  for  the  annual  meeting 
in  1 899,  and  she  placed  the  stamps  on  all  the 
(212) 


IN    MEMORIAM.  213 

360  envelopes,  and  would  allow  nobody  to 
help  her. 

From  the  moment  that  she  first  conceived 
the  idea,  until  her  pen  dropped  from  her  poor 
aged  hand  her  enthusiasm  never  faltered. 
Only  one  who  had  lived  with  her  and  saw 
her  daily  could  realize  how  she  devoted  her 
days  and  nights,  in  winter  or  summer,  from 
year  to  year,  to  that  object.  The  work  she 
often  said  was  "  a  true  labor  of  love"  and  she 
at  first  objected  to  accepting  the  allowance  for 
extra  expenses  on  that  ground.  She  asked 
one  very  clever  woman  to  accept  the  office, 
but  she  answered,  "  I  will  if  you  will  provide 
me  with  two  clerks."  The  ladies  of  the 
Board  of  Audit  knew  Mrs.  Hetzel  well,  and 
they  knew  that  no  one  else  could  do  the  work 
as  Mrs.  Hetzel  did  it,  and  that  is  why  they 
proposed  the  regular  allowance,  as  she  hav- 
ing served  several  years  without  one,  was 
unable  to  do  so  longer.  Mrs.  Hetzel  pos- 
sessed the  pen  of  a  ready  writer  and  a  beau- 
tifal  flowing  hand.  I  feel  sure  that  corre- 
spondents all  over  the  couutry  must  remem- 
ber and  admire  her  letters.  A  resolution 
from  the  Independence  Hall  Chapter  D. 


214  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

A.  R.  pays  tribute  to  "her  ardent  patriotism 
and  magnetic  enthusiasm,  always  inspiring 
others."  The  results  of  her  work,  the  amount 
collected  in  that  short  time — a  time,  too,  of 
great  financial  depression — testify  to  her 
energy  and  eloquence,  and  show  that  the 
extra  expenses  allowed  for  were  well  ex- 
pended. In  the  words  of  an  old  and  dear 
friend:  "She  bore  the  burden  and  heat  of 
the  day,  and  lived  to  see  her  object  accom- 
plished." "The  world  is  poorer  that  she  has 
left  it." 

Mrs.  Hetzel  originated  the  idea  that  the 
monument  should  be  built  by  the  women  of 
this  country,  but  Mrs.  Waite  directed  the 
plan  of  organization  and  the  methods  that 
brought  it  so  soon  to  a  successful  conclusion. 
While  Mrs.  Hetzel  was  busily  issuing  appeals 
and  collecting,  Mrs.  Waite  was  no  less  busily 
disbursing  and  doing  untold  work  as  chair- 
man of  the  Building  Committee.  She  jour- 
neyed in  many  States  in  search  of  the  best 
design  for  a  monument,  and  when  that  mon- 
ument was  completed  she  went  to  Freder- 
icksburg  to  see  it  raised  on  its  base.  Before 
the  Lodge  was  built  she  attended  to  every 


IN    MEMORIAM.  215 

item  of  the  work  on  the  grounds,  and  the 
subject  seemed  never  absent  from  her 
thoughts  until  the  last. 

It  is  a  striking  fact  that  these  two  women 
who  had  so  devoted  the  closing  years  of  their 
lives  to  the  memory  of  Mary  Washington 
should  have  left  this  world  on  days  closely 
associated  with  the  life  of  her  great  son.  Mrs. 
Waite  left  us  at  1 1  p.  m.,  February  2ist,  the 
eve  of  his  birth,  and  Mrs.  Hetzel  fell  asleep 
on  December  i5th,  1899,  while  the  echoes  of 
the  Centennial  of  Washington's  death  still 
lingered  on  the  ear  and  in  the  heart. 

"  It  is  good  to  meet  such  natures,  there  are 
none  too  many  in  this  world." 

A  few  days  later,  Mrs.  Hetzel  was  laid  to 
rest  in  Arlington,  covered  with  floral  tributes 
from  many  friends,  of  which  none  was  more 
touchingly  appropriate  than  a  laurel  wreath 
from  the  Army  and  Navy  Chapter  of  which 
she  was  a  member. 

Among  the  testimonials  received  by  the 
writer  during  the  sad  weeks  that  followed 
was  the  following  from  the  National  Board  of 
Management  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Amer- 
ican Revolution: 


2l6  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

"  Entered  into  rest  on  the  morning  of  December 
1 5th,  1899,  Mrs.  Margaret  Phoebe  J.  Hetzel,  of 
Washington,  District  of  Columbia,  an  organizer  and 
charter  member  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution  and  its  first  Honorary  Vice-President 
General.  Mrs.  Hetzel  was  also  the  originator  and 
Secretary  of  the  Mary  Washington  Memorial  As- 
sociation. 

"  The  Board  of  Management  of  the  National  So- 
ciety of  the  Daughers  of  the  American  Revolution 
hereby  express  their  heartfelt  sympathy  with  Miss 
Susan  Riviere  Hetzel,  Registrar  General,  and  with 
her  sister,  Mrs.  Margaret  Riviere  Hetzel  Pendleton, 
in  the  loss  of  their  gifted  mother,  who  passed  away 
in  the  fullness  of  years,  ripened  for  the  heavenly 
garner. 

"  MARY  JANE  SEYMOUR, 

"  Historian  General. 
"  ALICE  PICKETT  AKERS, 
"  Recording  Secretary'  General." 

The  Fredericksburg  Free  Lance  published 
the  following  editorial: 

"The  death  of  Mrs.  Margaret  Hetzel,  which  oc- 
curred in  Washington  last  Saturday,  has  been 
heard  with  regret  by  our  people.  Mrs.  Hetzel  was 
the  pioneer  and  principal  projector  of  the  movement 
which  culminated  in  the  erection  of  the  monument 
here  to  the  memory  of  Mary,  the  mother  of  Wash- 


IN    MEMORIAM.  2iy 

ington.  *  *  *  Mrs.  Hetzel  was  patriotic,  zealous 
and  untiring  in  her  work,  and  the  beautiful  shaft 
that  marks  the  spot  where  sleeps  the  mother  of  the 
father  of  his  country,  the  wondrous  work  of  the 
women  of  this  land,  is  a  monument  to  her  energy 
and  activity.  She  was  of  distinguished  ancestry,  of 
amiable,  gentle  character,  kind  in  her  dealings  and 
a  gentle  Christian  woman.  Our  people  knew  her, 
and  pay  the  tribute  of  their  sorrow  in  her  death." 

Mrs.  Fleming,  Vice-President  of  the  Na- 
tional Society  and  President  of  the  Freder- 
icksburg  Mary  Washington  Association  thus 
wrote  to  the  Secretary: 

"  That  she  in  her  old  age  should  undertake  and 
live  to  see  the  successful  completion  of  such  a  work 
as  hers  is  very  remarkable.  She  has  now  passed 
to  her  reward,  but  her  memory  will  live  as  one  who 
'did  what  she  could'  through  all  of  a  long  and 
eventful  life." 

Tributes  from  Daughters  and  Chapters  all 
over  the  country  were  received,  among  them 
the  following  from  Mrs.  Fairman,  whose  work 
as  Chairman  of  the  Mary  Washington  Asso- 
ciation in  the  New  York  City  Chapter  is  so 
well  known : 

"The   Mary   Washington    Monument  is  also  a 


2l8  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

monument  to  your  mother  who  concentrated  all 
her  efforts  to  accomplish  a  great  result  and  in  which 
she  was  most  successful.  It  is  given  to  but  few 
women  the  opportunity  to  see  such  a  beautiful  com- 
pletion of  her  labors.  I  rejoice  that  she  did  see  it. 
Of  her  it  may  well  be  said :  '  She  being  dead  yet 
speaketh.' " 

The  American  Monthly  Magazine  pre- 
sented an  eloquent  and  touching  memorial 
from  the  pen  of  Miss  Mary  Desha.  After 
telling  of  Mrs.  Hetzel's  early  association  and 
services  to  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution,  she  said: 

"  It  is  because  women  such  as  she,  broad-minded, 
self-sacrificing  and  patriotic  were  among  the  early 
officers  of  the  Society  that  its  foundations  were  laid 
broad  and  deep,  and  an  influence  has  gone  out 
from  it  that  has  kindled  the  patriotic  fires  of  the 
land.  *  *  * 

"  In  1 889,  when  she  was  over  70,  she  inaugurated 
the  movement  to  restore  the  monument  and  pre- 
serve from  desecration  the  tomb  of  the  mother  of 
Washington.  She  wrote  the  first  letter,  gave  the 
first  dollar  and  lived  to  see  the  work  completed. 
The  beautiful  shaft  that  marks  the  spot  is  not  only 
a  monument  to  Washington's  mother,  but  is  a 
memorial  to  the  four  devoted  women,  Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution,  all  over  seventy  years  of 


IN    MEMORIAM.  2IQ 

age,  who  organized  and  carried  to  completion  this 
noble  work,  neglected  alike  by  State  and  Nation. 

„  "As  I  stood  beside  her  coffin  and  looked  upon 
her  peaceful  face  beautiful  even  in  old  age,  and  after 
years  of  sicknecs  and  suffering,  I  could  not  grieve 
that  her  work  was  done,  but  rather  rejoiced  that 
after  a  life  of  patriotic,  zealous,  untiring  work,  faith- 
ful loving  service  in  every  relation  of  life,  she  had 
been  permitted  to  hear  the  words  'well  done  good 
and  faithful  servant/  and  entered  into  her  rest. 

"  MARY  DESHA, 

"  Founder  and  Honorary  Vice- President  General." 

Mrs.  Matilda  W.  Emory,  another  of  the 
"four  devoted  women"  so  tenderly  men- 
tioned by  Miss  Desha  was  laid  to  rest  six 
weeks  after  Mrs.  Hetzel.  Her  brilliant  past 
has  been  already  told  in  these  pages ;  her  in- 
tellectual, social  and  moral  prominence  as 
well  as  her  unfailing  wit  and.  good  judgment 
inherited  from  her  renowned  great-grand- 
father, Benjamin  Franklin.  She  and  Mrs. 
Hetzel  had  been  friends  since  they  first  met 
in  Washington  as  the  wives  of  brother  offi- 
cers. Members  of  the  same  church,  friends 
in  sickness  and  sorrow,  associated  in  the  same 
charities,  it  is  sweet  to  think  that  in  death 
they  were  not  divided. 


22O  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Mrs.  Fanny  Washington  Finch  was  called 
home  in  March,  1900,  and  on  Thanksgiving 
Day  of  the  same  year,  Miss  Eugenia  Wash- 
ington, her  cousin  and  housemate  also  left  us. 
These  two  Hereditary  Life  Members  joined 
the  pilgrimage  to  Fredericksburg  in  May, 
1 899.  It  was  their  last  visit  to  the  home  and 
tomb  of  their  great  ancestress  and  it  is  a 
great  boon  to  remember  how  happy  that  visit 
was. 


MRS.  W.  W.  WILCOX. 

(NEE  ELIZABETH  SHEPARD  CRITTENDEN.) 

Vice-President  of  Connecticut. 


CHAPTER  XXX. 

AFTERMATH. 

AT  the  annual  meeting  on  February  22d, 
1901,  the  following  report  was  presented  and 
read  by  Mrs.  Wilcox.  It  was  received  with 
much  interest  and  tells  the  story  of  the  Con- 
necticut room  in  such  a  pleasant  way  that  I 
shall  give  my  readers  the  benefit  of  it: 

"One  morning  in  February,  1897,  a  party  of 
Connecticut  friends,  including  myself,  went  from 
Washington  to  Fredericksburg  to  visit  the  home 
and  burial  place  of  Mary  Washington.  At  the 
Lodge  we  were  welcomed  by  the  very  efficient 
custodian,  Mrs.  John  T.  Goolrick,  the  wife  of  a 
prominent  lawyer  of  Fredericksburg,  and  Regent  of 
the  D.  A.  R.  Chapter  of  that  city. 

"  The  room  in  which  we  were  invited  to  register 
our  names  was  cheerless  and  bare,  with  the  excep- 
tion of  one  piece  of  furniture,  a  table;  and  we  all 
know  that  one  table  cannot  furnish  a  room  very 
satisfactorily. 

"  It  was  on  this  occasion  that  the  idea  originated 

of  asking  the  women  of  Connecticut  to  furnish  the 

*  room.     We  lost  no  time  in  securing  the  necessary 

(221) 


222  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

authority.  On  our  return  a  committee  was  formed 
and  the  work  was  at  once  begun. 

"  Five  years  have  passed,  and  to-day  the  dear 
little  room  looks  cheerful  and  bright  with  its  coat 
of  yellow  paint,  its  colonial  cornice,  its  rows  of  old 
blue  plates  and  tea-pots  on  brackets  over  the 
windows  and  doors,  its  lovely  rug  and  curtains. 
Those  of  you  who  have  not  seen  the  room  will  be 
interested  to  know  that  we  have  an  antique  writing- 
desk,  one  colonial  arm-chair,  two  mirrors,  window 
shades,  curtains,  two  handsome  colonial  chairs,  a 
chippendale  table,  two  pairs  of  candlesticks,  and- 
irons, shovel  and  tongs,  seven  blue  plates,  three 
sugar  bowls,  four  tea-pots,  a  sofa  and  a  water  color 
of  Washington  at  Mount  Vernon. 

"  Connecticut  has  made  sixty-four  Life  Members 
of  the  Association,  and  these  at  thirty-five  dollars 
each,  have  netted  the  Society  twenty-two  hundred 
dollars. 

"  Wadsworth  Chapter  of  Middletown,  Connecti- 
cut, contributed  one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  to- 
wards the  erection  of  the  Mary  Washington  Monu- 
ment. 

"  The  sale  of  photographs  of  the  monument  and 
lodge,  also  of  the  little  book,  '  The  Story  of  Mary 
Washington,'  by  Marion  Harland,  and  a  Mary 
Washington  tea  have  netted  the  Society  quite  a 
sum.  This  with  contributions  from  friends  has 
amounted  to  three  hundred  dollars.  The  expenses 


AFTERMATH.  223 

thus  far  for  furnishing  the  room  have  been  two 
hundred  and  ninety-four  dollars. 

"  We  hope  in  time  to  adorn  the  walls  with  colon- 
ial pictures,  and  we  are  now  anticipating  with  much 
pleasure  a  beautiful  gift  of  the  Connecticut  Coat  of 
Arms  from  the  Ruth  Wyllis  Chapter  of  Hartford. 

"  ELIZABETH  S.  WILCOX, 
"  Vice-President  of  Connecticut  for  the  N.  M.  W. 

M.  A." 

In  May,  1900,  the  Harrisburg  Chapter  pre- 
sented a  medal  to  Mrs.  Annie  Buehler  Lam- 
berton,  for  four  years  their  most  gracious, 
kind  and  hospitable  Regent.  A  year  later 
the  Colonial  Dames  of  New  Hampshire  made 
an  Hereditary  Life  Member  of  Mrs.  Martha 
Cilley  Bouton  Clarke,  well  known  and  loved 
by  the  early  members  of  the  Mary  Washing- 
ton Association. 

On  October  23,  1901,  the  Carolina  Scott 
Harrison,  of  Indianapolis,  presented  the 
golden  star  to  Mrs.  Cornelia  Cole  Fairbank, 
President-General  of  the  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution.  The  following  inter- 
esting account  of  the  presentation  was  sent 
by  the  Chapter  Historian : 

"On  the   afternoon  of  October  23d,   1901,  the 


224  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

Caroline  Scott  Harrison  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the 
American  Revolution  of  Indianapolis,  gave  a  large 
reception  in  honor  of  Mrs.  Charles  W.  Fairbanks, 
President  General  of  the  National  Society  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  and  one  of 
the  early  members  of  the  Caroline  Scott  Harrison 
Chapter.  More  than  two  hundred  guests  re- 
sponded, each  Chapter  in  the  State  sending  several 
representatives.  Mrs.  John  N.  Carey,  Regent  of 
the  Chapter,  received  the  guests  and  presented  them 
to  Mrs.  Fairbanks  and  to  Mrs.  James  M.  Fowler, 
State  Regent  of  Indiana. 

"  During  the  afternoon  Mrs.  Carey  in  a  short  ad- 
dress presented  Mrs.  Fairbanks  with  a  Life  Mem- 
bership in  the  National  Mary  Washington  Memorial 
Association,  a  handsome  pin,  the  insignia  of  that 
Association  accompanied  the  gift. 

"  Mrs.  Fairbanks  made  a  graceful  acceptance  of 
the  membership  and  then  a  short  address  relative 
to  the  Continental  Hall. 

"MRS.  JEFFERSON  H.  CLAYPOOL, 

"  Historian,  Caroline  Scott  Harrison  Chapter." 

On  June  27,  1902,  a  tablet  was  erected  in 
Zion  Church,  Allentown,  Pa.,  by  the  Liberty 
Bell  Chapter,  in  commemoration  of  the  con- 
cealment of  the  bell  while  the  British  were  in 
possession  of  Philadelphia.  The  tablet  was 
unveiled  by  Miss  Minnie  F.  Mickley,  founder 


AFTERMATH.  225 

and  first  Regent  of  the  Chapter,  and  descend- 
ant of  John  Jacob  Mickley,  who,  while  the 
enemy  were  entering  the  city,  brought  the 
Liberty  Bell,  in  one  of  his  farm  wagons,  cov- 
ered with  farm  material  from  Philadelphia  to 
Allentown,  where  it  was  hidden  in  the  cellar 
of  Zion  Church. 

Immediately  after  this  ceremony,  the  pres- 
ent Regent,  Mrs.  Saeger,  on  behalf  of  the 
Liberty  Bell  Chapter,  presented  to  her  prede- 
cessor, Miss  Mickley,  the  insignia  of  the 
Mary  Washington  Association. 
15 


CHAPTER  XXXI. 

FINIS. 

THE  resolution  of  Miss  Desha,  adopted  by 
the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  at 
their  first  meeting  has  been  faithfully  fulfilled. 
I  can  but  review  what  has  been  already  told 
when  I  recount  the  splendid  work  of  the 
many  Chapters  and  members  of  that  organi- 
zation. The  Secretary  of  the  Mary  Wash- 
ington Association  was  an  organizer  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution,  the 
President  and  the  two  Vice-Presidents  were 
Charter  Members,  as  were  also  Mrs.  Pryor, 
Mrs.  Terhune,  Mrs  Clifton  Breckenridge, 
Mrs.  Keyser,  Mrs.  Trumbull  and  Mrs.  Roby. 
Miss  Desha  was  a  Founder,  and  Mrs.  Wil- 
cox,  whose  wonderful  work  has  been  told  in 
the  preceding  chapter,  is  a  member  and  Re- 
gent of  the  Wadsworth  Chapter,  Middle- 
town,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor,  in  addition  to  having 
originated  the  Hereditary  Life  Memberships, 
(226) 


MRS.  JAMES  FAIRMAN. 

(NEE  SARAH  ELIZABETH  HOLDEN.) 

Chairman  N.  M.  W.  M.  A.,  New  York  CitylChapter. 


FINIS.  227 

enlisted  herself  63  Hereditary  Life  Members 
from  Daughters  and  Dames  all  over  the 
land.  I  will  also  add  in  her  own  words  : 

"  Desiring  that  every  member  of  the  New  York 
City  Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  American 
Revolution  should  have  the  privilege  of  contributing 
to  our  sacred  work,  and  having  full  faith  in  the  in- 
telligence, patience,  patriotism  and  fidelity  of  Mrs. 
Sarah  E.  Fairman,  I  appointed  her  as  a  sub-com- 
mittee to  present  our  cause  at  every  meeting  of  the 
Chapter.  She  has  more  than  justified  my  trust  in 
her.  At  her  last  report  to  me  she  announces  that 
she  has  collected  in  all  one  thousand  three  hundred 
and  seventy-one  dollars,  and  transmitted  the  same 
to  the  Board  at  Washington." 

This,  added  to  collections  made  by  Mrs. 
Pryor  herself,  reaches  at  least  the  sum  of  four 
thousand  dollars. 

An  account  has  already  been  given  of  the 
presentation  of  medals  from  Chapters  to  their 
Regents  and  from  many  Chapters  to  State 
Regents.  In  addition  to  that  a  great  deal  has 
been  done  by  Chapters. 

Early  donations  were  sent  by  Mrs.  Smith 
of  the  Philadelphia  Chapter,  Miss  Lilian 
Evans  of  the  Donegal  and  Miss  Mickley  of 


228  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

the  Liberty  Bell  Chapter.  Lectures  were 
given  for  the  benefit  of  the  cause  by  the  John 
Marshall  Chapter  of  Louisville,  Kentucky, 
and  the  Mary  Washington  Chapter  of  Wash- 
ington, D.  C.  The  Army  and  Navy,  the  Old 
Colony  and  many  others  have  sent  donations 
and  several  Chapters  have  themselves  taken 
memberships.  The  Gaspee  of  Providence, 
the  Louisa  St.  Clair  of  Detroit  and  the  Fanny 
Ledyard  and  Susan  Carrington  Clarke  Chap- 
ters of  Connecticut  all  hold  memberships. 
Many  of  our  best  workers  are  Chapter  Re- 
gents. Mrs.  McCartney,  of  the  Wyoming 
Valley  Chapter,  is  the  Pennsylvania  Vice- 
President.  Mrs.  S.  V.  White,  of  Brooklyn, 
and  Mrs.  Stoddard,  of  the  Saranac  Chapter, 
have  enlisted  many  Hereditary  Life  Members, 
so  has  Miss  Baird  Huey,  of  Pennsylvania, 
In  fact  so  much  has  been  done  by  Daughters 
and  Children  that  it  seems  impossible  to  do 
justice  to  it  all.  Three  Presidents-General 
are  Hereditary  Life  Members:  Mrs.  Steven- 
son, Mrs.  Manning  and  Mrs.  Fairbanks. 

I  have  stated  the  work  of  the  Daughters 
in  this  way  so  that  one  may  see  how  prodig- 
ious it  has  been,  and  I  suppose  this  has  given 


FINIS.  229 

*! 

ground  for  the  impression  that  the  Mary 
Washington  Monument  was  entirely  the  work 
of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolu- 
tion. As  you  see,  it  is  true  that  a  large  pro- 
portion of  the  work  was  done  by  the  Daugh- 
ters; but  it  is  but  justice  to  many  earnest 
workers  and  generous  contributors  to  say 
that  the  building  of  the  Mary  Washington 
Monument  and  the  providing  for  its  future 
care  and  preservation  was  not  solely  the  work 
of  the  Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution. 

Mrs.  Hearst,  of  California,  who  raised  the 
first  thousand  dollars,  has  never  joined  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution  ;  nor 
has  Mrs.  Macon  of  Colorado,  Mrs.  Dolph  of 
Oregon,  Mrs.  Adams  of  Nevada,  Mrs.  Squire 
of  Washington,  Mrs.  McPherson  of  New  Jer- 
sey, Mrs.  Gray  of  Delaware,  nor  Mrs.  Vance 
of  North  Carolina.  Mrs.  Lewis  of  South 
Carolina,  was  not  a  Daughter  when  she  gave 
that  beautiful  ball  in  Charleston,  nor  was 
Mrs.  Story  of  Louisiana,  when  she  sent  $900 
from  the  Carnival  Ball  at  New  Orleans, 
though  she  subsequently  joined,  and  was  for 
some  time  State  Regent  of  Louisiana. 

Mrs.  Catherine  Gansevoort  Lansing,  whose 


230  BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 

wonderful  work  for  the  Mary  Washington 
cause  must  be  well  known,  was  a  Daughter 
of  the  Cincinnati  and  the  Regent  of  the 
Gansevoort  Chapter,  Daughters  of  the  Revo- 
lution. The  Chapter  was  named  after  her 
grandfather.  She  sent  a  donation  from  that 
Chapter  to  the  Mary  Washington  fund.  The 
Chapter  subsequently  left  the  Daughters  of 
the  Revolution  and  joined  the  Daughters  of 
the  American  Revolution,  but  Mrs.  Lansing 
did  not  join  with  them.  She  has  never  be- 
come a  D.  A.  R. 

We  have  several  Daughters  of  the  Revolu- 
tion in  our  list  of  Hereditary  Life  Members, 
among  others  Miss  Torquina  L.  Voss,  of 
Indianapolis,  and  Mrs.  Charlton  L.  Moody, 
of  Philadelphia. 

The  Colonial  Dames  of  Pennsylvania, 
through  their  distinguished  officer,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Duane  Gillespie,  sent  a  liberal 
donation ;  the  Massachusetts  Society  of 
Colonial  Dames  has  a  Life  Membership,  and 
the  Colonial  Dames  of  New  Hampshire  have 
conferred  a  medal  on  their  State  President. 

Not  only  are  there  many  Daughters  and 
Dames  among  the  Hereditary  Life  Members, 


FINIS.  231 

but  many  who  are  neither  Daughters  or 
Dames,  but  still  are  noble  patriotic  women 
and  the  inscription  on  the  monument  tells  us 
truly  that  it  is  to 

MARY  THE  MOTHER  OF  WASHINGTON, 
ERECTED  BY  HER  COUNTRYWOMEN. 


ss&* 


MISS  SUSAN  RIVIERE  HETZEL. 


The  National 
Mary  Washington  Memorial  Association, 

CHARTERED    FEBRUARY    22,    188O, 

IN  THE  DISTRICT  OF  COLUMBIA. 


trustees. 

THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  (ex-officio). 
THE  CHIEF-JUSTICE  OF  THE  UNITED  STATES  (ex-officio}. 
THE  GOVERNOR  OF  VIRGINIA  (ex-officio). 

JBoaro  of  Directors. 

President. 
Mrs.  ELIZABETH  BLAIR  LEE. 

ist    Vice-President. 
Mrs.  ELEANOR  WASHINGTON  HOWARD. 

zd  Vice  President. 
Mrs.  VIVIAN  M.  FLEMING. 

Secretary. 
Miss  SUSAN  RIVIERE  HETZEL. 

Treasurer. 

Hon.  BLAIR  LEE. 

Legal  Adviser, 

Major  ROBERT  W.  HUNTER. 

Parliamentarian. 

Miss  MARY  DESHA. 

Mrs.  W.  W.  WILCOX.  Mrs.  ROBERDEAU  BUCHANAN. 

ORIGINAL    INCORPORATOR. 

Miss  MAUD  LEE  DAVIDGE. 

(233) 


234 


BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 


Dice»pre0tDent0  of  States. 

Mrs.  HENRY  HALL  DAVIS,  Maine. 

Mrs.  Senator  BLAIR — Mrs.  PERSON  C.  CHENEY 

— Mrs.  SHEPARD,  New  Hampshire. 

*Mrs.  DILLINGHAM — Mrs.  HORACE  H.  DYER,  Vermont. 

Mrs.  IDA  FARR  MILLER,  Massachusetts. 

Mrs.  B.  O.  WILBUR,  Rhode  Island. 

Mrs.  WILCOX,  Connecticut. 

Mrs.  ABRAHAM  LANSING,  New  York. 

*Mrs.  DfiWiir  CLINTON  MATHER — Mrs.  I. 

W.  SCHULTZ,  New  Jersey. 

*Mrs.  J.  P.  LIPPINCOTT,  Philadelphia. 

Mrs.  W.  H.  MCCARTNEY,  Pennsylvania, 

Mrs.  Senator  GRAY — Mrs.  CHURCHMAN — 

Miss  WAPLES,  Delaware. 

Mrs.  MARY  WASHINGTON  KEYSER,  Maryland. 

Mrs.  V.  M.  FLEMING,  Virginia. 

Mrs.  J.  C.  KENNA— Miss  VIRGINIA  LEWIS 

MITCHELL,  West  Virginia. 

Mrs.  Senator  VANCE,  North  Carolina. 

Mrs.  JOHN  W.  LEWIS,  South  Carolint. 

Mrs.  M.  A.  LIPSCOMB,  Georgia. 

Miss  WHEELER,  Alabama. 

Mrs.  H.  D.  MONEY,  Mississippi. 

Mrs.  J.  WASHINGTON  STORY,  Louisiana. 

Mrs.  Senator  REAGAN,  Texas. 

Mrs.  AMBLER,  Florida. 

Mrs.  MARY  B.  WASHINGTON,  Tennessee. 

Mrs.  CLIFTON  R.  BRECKENRIDGE,  Arkansas. 

Mrs.  William  LINDSAY,  Kentucky. 

Mrs.  D.  MEADE  MASSIE,  Ohio. 

Mrs.  GEORGE  H.  SHIELDS,  Missouri. 

Mrs.  MASON  (resigned) — Mrs.  ROBERT  STOCK- 
WELL  HATCHER.  Indiana. 

Mrs.  LYMAN  TRUMBULL — Mrs.  JAMES  F. 

HERVEY,  Illinois. 


VICE-PRESIDENTS    OF    STATES. 


235 


Mrs.  THOMAS  W.  PALMER, 

Mrs.  CLARA  A.  COOLEY, 

Mrs.  JOHN  L.   MITCHELL — Mrs.   ANGUS 

CAMERON, 

Mrs.  KATE  SMEED  CROSS, 
Mrs.  R.  M.  NEWPORT, 
Miss  MORTON, 

Mrs.  Senator  DOLPH, 
Mri.  Senator  SQUIRE, 

Mrs.  L.  BRADFORD  PRINCE, 

Mrs.  Senator  WARREN, 

Mrs.  Senator  HEARST — Mrs.  A.  L.  HUBBARD, 

Mrs.  Senator  STEWART — Mrs.  Gov.  ADAMS, 

Mri.  M.  V.  MACON — Mrs.  F.  W.  GODDARD, 

Miss  VIRGINIA  MILLER, 

Mrs.  ROGER  A.  PRYOR, 

Miss  MARY  DESHA, 

Mrs.  EDWARD  ROBY, 

Mrs.  CHAUNCEY  STODDARD, 


Michigan. 
Iowa. 

Wisconsin. 

Kansas. 

Minnesota. 

Nebraska. 

Dakota. 

Oregon. 

Washington. 

Montana. 

New  Mexico. 

Idaho. 

Wyoming. 

California. 

Nevada. 

Colorado. 

District  of  Columbia. 


At  Large. 


LIST 

or 

HEREDITARY  LIFE  MEMBERS 

OP    THB 

National 
Mary  Washington  Memorial  Association. 


*  Deceased,  see  last  page. 


*i.  Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Waite,  Incorporator. 
*2.  Mrs.  Matilda  W.  Emory,  Incorporator, 

1718  H  St.,  Washington,  D.  C. 
3.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Blair  Lee,  Incorporator, 

Sligo,  Montgomery  Co.,  Md. 
*4.  Mrs.  Margaret  Hetzel,  Incorporator,       Clifton,  Fairfax  Co.,Va. 

5.  Miss  Maud  Lee  Davidge,  Incorporator,  Washington,  D.  C. 

6.  Mrs.  Annette  Henry  Alger,  Detroit,  Mich. 

7.  Mrs.  John  V.  L.  Pruyn,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

8.  Mrs.  H.  F.  Lovell,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

9.  Mrs.  Frank  Hatton,  Washington,  D.  C. 
10.  Mrs.  George  W.  Childs,  "  " 
n.  Mrs.  Roger  A.  Pryor,                               New  York  City. 

12.  Miss  Mary  Custis  Lee,  Lexington,  Va. 

13.  General  Charles  Anderson,  Richmond,  Va. 

14.  Miss  Anni«  C.  Camm,  "  " 

15.  Miss  Jennie  Inman  (Mrs.  Payne),  New  York  City. 

(236) 


HEREDITARY    LIFE   MEMBERS. 


237 


1 6.  Mrs.  Mary  L.  Hunter, 

17.  Mrs.  Kate  Smeed  Cross, 

1 8.  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Senff, 

19.  Mrs.  Benjamin  Rowland, 

20.  Mrs.  George  de  B.  Keim, 

21.  Mrs.  Wm.  F.  Havemeyer, 

22.  Mrs.  M.  J.  Welmarth, 

23.  Mrs.  Potter  Palmer, 

24.  Mrs.  Honore, 

25.  Miss  Katherine  Colvin, 
*26.  Mrs.  Francis  M.  Stewart, 

27.  Mrs.  Abraham  Lansing, 

28.  Mrs.  Charles  Avery  Doremus, 

29.  Mrs.  Mary  Washington  Keyser, 

30.  Mrs.  M.  V.  Terhune, 

31.  Mrs.  Jeanette  M.  Thurber, 

32.  Mrs.  Spencer  Trask, 

33.  Mrs.  Clemence  B.  Fish, 

34.  Mrs.  Daniel  Manning, 

35.  Mrs.  G.  A.  Van  Allen, 

36.  Mrs.  Robert  L.  Fryer, 
"  Mr.  Dudley  Olcott, 

37.  Mrs.  Ida  Remington  Squire, 

38.  Mrs.  Louise  Ackerson, 

39.  Mrs.  Anna  Geer  Belden, 

40.  Miss  Margaret  Caroline  Sands, 
•41.  Mrs.  Alice  C.  Bakewell, 

42.  Mrs.  Fairleigh, 

43.  Miss  Mary  E.  Cook, 

44.  Mrs.  L.  Hedges, 

45.  Mrs.  M.  B.  V.  Stacey, 

46.  Miss  Mildred  Hall, 

47.  Mrs.  M.  D.  Thatcher, 

48.  Mrs.  Emma  N.  Arbuckle, 

49.  Mrs.  Mary  N.  Miller, 

50.  Mrs.  Eliza  Ferry  Leary, 


New  York  City. 
Emporia,  Kans. 
Long  Island,  N.  Y, 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
«  « 

New  York  City. 
Chicago,  Ills. 


Albany,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Pompton,  N.  J. 
New  York  City. 


Albany,  N.  Y. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 
Seattle,  Wash. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
New  York. 
St.  Joseph,  Mo. 
Columbus,  Ga. 
Denver,  Col. 
Seattle. 
Denver,  Col. 
Pueblo,  Col. 
Denver,  Co1. 
Seattle. 


238 


BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 


51.  Mrs.  Clara  Clayton  Crawford, 

52.  Mrs.  R.  J.  McKnight  Moses, 

53.  Mrs.  Lucy  Wharton  Drexel, 

54.  Mrs.  Margaretta  \V.  Mohr, 

55.  Mrs.  Mary  Muhlenberg  Emery, 
*56.  Mrs.  Mary  Parker  Corning, 

57.  Mrs.  Sarah  Manning  Sage, 

58.  Mrs.  Dawn  L.  Hitchcock, 

59.  Mrs.  Ferdinand  Earle, 
*6o.  Mrs.  Deborah  B.  Coleman, 

6 1.  Mrs.  Mary  F.  Myer, 
62<z.Mrs.  Belinda  Olney  Wilbour, 
62£.Mrs.  Martha  Mitchell, 

63.  Mrs.  Fannie  A.  Crosby, 

64.  Miss  Marion  Biddle, 

65.  Miss  Elizabeth  N.  Brown, 

66.  Mrs.  Angelina  B.  Collins, 

67.  Mrs.  Ellen  Wain  Harrison, 

68.  Mrs.  George  F.  Lord, 

69.  Mrs.  Henry  K.  Sheldon, 

70.  The  Duchess  de  Veragua, 
*7i.  Mrs.  Fanny  Thurston  Ballard, 

72.  Mrs.  William  Lindsay, 

73.  Miss  Mary  G.  Leland, 

74.  Miss  Fanny  Brown, 

75.  Miss  Mary  Desha, 

76.  Infanta  Eulalia. 

*77-  Mrs.  John  Townshend, 

78.  Mrs.  Louisa  J.  Black, 

79.  Mrs.  Mary  Donohan, 

80.  Mrs.  Eleanor  Martin, 
*8l.  Miss  Harriet  A,  Weed, 
*82.  Mrs.  Harriet  Cramer  Porter, 

83.  Mrs.  Jerusha  Appleton, 

84.  Mrs.  Sally  Patterson  Sharpe, 

85.  Mrs.  Annie  E.  Hobbes  Blanchard, 


Seattle. 

Washington,  D.  C. 
New  York. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Cincinnati,  O. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 
Menands,  Albany,  N.Y. 
New  York. 

Philadelphia. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Bristol,  R.  I. 
Florida. 

Pennsylvania. 

Seattle,  Wash. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
New  York. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Spain. 

Louisville,  Ky. 
Frankfort,  Ky. 
Fall  River,  Mass. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Spain. 
New  York. 
« 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

New  York  City. 
Waterford,  N.  Y. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 
Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 
Santa  Paula,  CaL 


HEREDITARY    LIFE    MEMBERS. 


239 


86.  Mrs.  Ethel  W.  Sperry  Crocker,  California. 

87.  Miss  Estelle  L.  Willoughby,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

88.  Mrs.  Annie  M.  Crawford,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

89.  Mrs.  Alice  G.  Cole,  Fredericksburg,  Va. 

90.  Mr.  Edward  Avery  Shedd,  Chicago,  Ills. 

91.  Mrs.  Edward  Roby,  Roby,  Ills. 

92.  Mr.  John  S.  Field,  Chicago,  Ills. 

93.  Mrs.  Mary  I.  Trumbull,  Saybrook,  Conn. 

94.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  S.  Wilcox,  Middletown,  Conn. 

95.  Mrs.  Colin  Armstrong,  Illinois. 

96.  Mrs.  William  A.  Talcott,  Rockford,  Ills. 

97.  Mrs.  M.  E.  Potter,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

98.  Mrs.  Lucia  B.  Kellogg,  Waterbury,  Conn. 

99.  Mrs.  M.  N.  Putnam,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 
*loo.  Mrs.  Frances  N.  Woodward,  "  " 

101.  Mrs.  Virginia  Knox  Maddox,  San  Francisco,  Cal. 

102.  Mrs.  Alice  H.  Wallace,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

103.  Mary  Washington  Association,  Fredericksburg,  Va. 

104.  Mrs.  T.  W.  Palmer,  Michigan. 

105.  Mrs.  Edward  I.  Smith,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

106.  Miss  Annie  Law  Hubbell,  "  " 

107.  Mrs.  Annie  D.  B.  Reynolds,  Pennsylvania. 

108.  Mrs.  Seth  Low,  New.  York  City. 

109.  Miss  Pauline  P.  Whitney  (Mrs.  Paget),        "  " 
no.  Mrs.  Mary  P.  S.  Campbell,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 
in.  Mrs.  Catherine  R.  Kernochan,  New  York  City. 
112.  Mrs.  Mary  W.  Bowler,  Virginia. 

*II3.  Mrs.  Sara  S.  Whiting,  New  York. 

1 14.  Mrs.  Martha  W.  Wysong,  New  York. 

115.  Mrs.  Mary  Stuart  Smith,  Charlottesville,  Va. 

116.  Mrs.  Henrietta  B.  Huff,  Greensburg,  Pa. 

1 17.  Mrs.  Frances  Candy  B.  Griscom,  Haverford,  Pa. 

118.  Mrs.  D.  Meade  Massie,  Chillicothe,  O. 

1 19.  Mrs.  A.  Howard  Hinkle,  Cincinnati,  O. 

120.  Mrs.  Eva  S.  Cochran.  New  York  City. 

121.  Mrs.  Florence  St.  J.  Wardwell,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


240 


BUILDING    OF    A    MONUMENT. 


122.  Mrs.  Emma  Thompson  Smith, 

123.  Mrs.  Fanny  Morris  Ward, 
*I24.  Miss  Alice  Thompson, 

125.  Mrs.  Wilhelmina  Blatchford, 
*I26.  Mrs.  Mary  Ford  Bush, 

127.  Mrs.  Henrietta  Crosby  Thompson, 

128.  Mrs.  Mary  I.  Burden, 

129.  Mrs.  Abby  Townsend  Lansing, 
1 300. Mrs.  Emily  Norwood  Trevor, 
i3d£.Mrs.  Fanny  Brooke  Reid, 

131.  Mrs.  Catherine  Fox  Lansing, 

132.  Mrs.  Hannah  Biddle  Williams, 
*I33-  Mrs.  J.  Burrows  Greene, 
*I34-  Mrs.  Elizabeth  L.  Marquand, 

135.  Mrs.  Caroline  de  F.  Orr, 

136.  Mrs.  Jennie  C.  Fassett, 

137.  Miss  Caroline  Phelps  Stokes, 

138.  Mrs.  Mary  B.  Lewis, 

139.  Mrs.  Janet  Suffern  Lansing, 

140.  Mrs.  Lucretia  R.  Garfield. 

141.  Mrs.  Eliza  E.  Newport, 
!42a.Mrs.  Gertrude  Darragh  Linton, 
i42/;.Mrs.  M.  Bell  Moncure  Hall, 
l43<j.Mrs.  Laura  E.  Hancock  Merriam, 
!43<J.Mrs.  M.  C.  Head, 

144.  Mrs.  Wilbur  Bloodgood, 

145.  Mrs.  S.  M.  S.  Stiles, 

146.  Mrs.  Virginia  G.  Empie, 

147.  Mrs.  Fannie  E.  Poisson. 

148.  Mrs.  Katherine  C.  Breckenridge, 

149.  Mrs.  Ida  Farr  Miller, 

150.  Mrs.  Maria  W.  W.  Proctor, 

151.  Miss  Mary  Perkins  Quincy, 

152.  Mrs.  Margaret  J.  Hunsicker, 

153.  Mrs.  Jean  Eno  Campbell, 

154.  Mrs.  Mary  Derr, 


Ballston  Spa,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
Ballston  Spa,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
Niagara  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Troy,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Little  Falls,  N.  Y. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
New  York  City. 
New  York. 
Troy,  N.  Y. 
Elmira,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 
New  York. 
Mentor,  O. 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Minnesota. 
Tennessee. 
New  York  City. 
Watertown,  N.  Y. 
Wilmington,  N.  C. 
London,  England. 
Pine  Bluff,  Ark. 
Wakefield,  Mass. 
Utica,  N.  Y. 
New  Haven,  Conn. 
Norristown,  Pa. 
Hoboken,  N.  J. 
Wilkes-Barre,  Pa. 


HEREDITARY    LIFE   MEMBERS. 


241 


'55- 

156. 

'57- 
158- 
'59- 
1 60. 
161. 
162. 
163- 
164. 
165. 
166. 
167. 

1 68. 
169. 
170. 
171. 
172. 

173- 
174. 

'75- 
176. 
177. 
178. 

"179. 
1 80. 
181. 
182. 
183. 
184. 

185. 
1 86. 
187. 


Mrs.  Frances  E.  Loomis, 
Mrs.  M.  Fay  Peirce, 
Mrs.  E.  M.  E.  Darlington, 
Mrs.  Ella  Guthrie  Painter. 
Mrs.  Julia  K.  Hogg, 
Mrs.  Rachel  H.  Mellon, 
Mrs.  Felicia  R.  Johnson, 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  P.  Kennedy, 
Mrs.  Mary  F.  Robbins, 
Mrs.  Harriet  F.  Greve, 
Mrs.  Charlotte  L.  Bolton, 
Mrs.  Marie  Dennis  Mercur. 


Pennsylvania. 
New  York  City. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Allegheny,  Pa. 
Allegheny,  Pa. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Allegheny,  Pa. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Allegheny,  Pa. 
Cincinnati,  O. 
New  York  City. 
Wallingford,  Pa. 


Mrs.    Eleanor     Selden    Washington 

Howard, 

Mrs.  Addie  Wallerstein, 
Mrs.  Caroline  M.  B.  Hulbert, 
Mrs.  Malilda  H.  Perin, 
Miss  Annie  Laws, 
Mrs.  Harriet  C.  Robbins, 
Mrs.  Adeline  C.  French, 
Dr.  Fannie  W.  Oakly, 
Mrs.  Isabella  I.  Thomas, 
Mrs.  Alice  C.  Brewster, 
Mrs.  E.  W.  Fleming, 
Miss    Anne    Randolph     Ball 

(Mrs.  Baughman), 
Mrs.  Margaret  Herbert  Mather, 
Miss  Sarah  Marline  Rittenhouse, 
Mrs.  Katherine  Searle  McCartney, 
Mrs.  P.  C.  Cheney, 
Mrs.  Emma  Westcott  Bullock, 
Miss  Eliza  Selden  Washington 

(Mrs.  Hunter), 
Miss  Mary  Torrence  Harrison, 
Mrs.  Ella  K.  Perin, 
Mrs.  Mary  H.  Hart, 
16 


Alexandria,  Va. 
New  York  City. 
Clifton,  O. 
Clifton,  O. 
Cincinnati,  O. 
Cincinnati,  O. 
Glendale,  O. 
New  York  City. 
Cincinnati,  O. 
Rochester,  N.  Y. 
Fredericksburg,  Va. 

Davenport,  la. 
Bound  Brook,  N.  J. 
Germantown,  Pa. 
Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 
Manchester,  N.  H. 
Bristol,  R.  I. 

Alexandria,  Va. 
Cincinnati,  O. 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Pennsylvania. 


242 


BUILDING   OF   A   MONUMENT. 


1 88.  Mrs.  Alice  Shepley  Nichols,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

189.  Mrs.  Donaldson,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 

190.  Mrs.  Mai  Philler  Lee,  Haverford,  Pa. 

191.  Mrs.  Louise  Levering  Weber,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

192.  Mrs.  Lena  Burton  Clarke,  Minnesota. 

193.  Miss  Julia    Scott    Stevenson 

(Mrs.  Hard  in),  Illinois. 

194.  Mrs.  Sarah  D.  Hewitt,  New  York  City. 

195.  Mrs.  Letitia  Green  Stevenson,  Bloomington,  Ills. 

196.  Mrs.  Olivia  Gardner  Moses,  Trenton,  N.  J. 

197.  Mrs.  Anne  Van  Rensselaer  Wells,      New  York. 

198.  Mrs.  Helen  Biddle  Griscom  Bettle,    Haverford,  Pa. 

199.  Mrs.  Hannah  Nicholson  Ellison,  Pennsylvania. 

200.  Gaspee  Chapter,  Providence,  R.  I. 

20 1.  Mrs.  Sarah  L.  Horton,  New  York. 

202.  Mrs.  Grace  Lea  Hunt,  Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 

203.  Miss  Emma  C.  King,  Xenia,  O. 

204.  Mrs.  Joanna  Wharton  Lippincott,       Philadelphia,  Pa. 

205.  Mrs.  Phebe  A.  Hearst,  Washington,  D.  C. 

206.  Mrs.  Sarah  Boice  Runyon,  Plainfield,  N.  J. 

207.  Mrs.  Julia  Williams  Biddle,  Pennsylvania. 

208.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hart  Colt,  Hartford,  Conn. 
*2O9.  Mrs.  J.  I.  Washburn,  Connecticut. 

210.  Mrs.   Jeanie   Washington    Campbell 

Story,  New  Orleans,  La. 

211.  Mrs.  Caroline  Crafts  Little,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

212.  Mrs.  Mary  Everest  Rockwell,  Meriden,  Conn. 

213.  Mrs.  Harriet  Dawson  Glover,  Fan-field,  Conn. 

214.  Mrs.  James  Hicks,  Piqua,  O. 

215.  Mrs.  Sarah  E.  Fairman,  New  York  City. 

216.  Mrs.  Charlemagne  Tower,  Jr. ,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

217.  Mrs.  Frank  Houston  Wyeth,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

218.  Miss  Harriet  Baird-Huey,  "  " 

219.  Mrs.  Herman  F.  Straw,  Manchester,  N.  H. 

220.  Miss  Helen  Murray  Reynolds,  Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 

221.  Mrs.  Mary  T.  Hill,  St.  Paul,  Minn. 


HEREDITARY    LIFE    MEMBERS. 


243 


222.  Mrs.  Nora  Blood  Carpenter, 

223.  Mrs.  Donald  McLean, 

224.  Mrs.  Scott  Jordan, 

225.  Mrs.  Robert  Stockwell  Hatcher, 

226.  Miss  Marguerite  Doane, 

227.  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Monfort, 

228.  Mrs.   Elizabeth  Cass  Ledyard  God 

dard, 

229.  Mrs.  Anna  Maria  Lathrop  Hewes, 

230.  Miss  Mary  Harvey, 

231.  Mrs.  M.  B.  McK.  Bailey, 

232.  Mrs.  Abby  Day  Slocomb, 

233.  Mrs.  H.  Bowron, 

234.  Mrs.  Rosalynd  Wood  Clingan, 

235.  Mrs.  Margaret  L.  Postley, 

236.  Mrs.  Mary  D.  Chahoon, 

237.  Mrs.  Lillie  Van  Loun  Lindabury, 

238.  Mrs.  Marcellus  Hartley, 

239.  Mrs.  J.  Heron Crosman  (Ellen  Hall), 

240.  Mrs.  J.  Mauran  Rhodes, 

241.  Mrs.  W.  A.  Bowron, 

242.  Mrs.  Gertrude  Van  C.  Hamilton, 

243.  Mrs.  Andrew  J.  Colvin, 

244.  Mrs.  Edith  L.  Collins, 

245.  Mrs.  W.  M.  Knight, 

246.  Mrs.  J.  De  W.  Harvey, 

247.  Mrs.  Louis  J.  Hall, 

248.  Mrs.  A.  W.  Reed, 

249.  Mrs.  Cornelia  Gray  Lunt, 

250.  Mrs.  James  W.  Randall, 

251.  Mrs.  Roger  Wolcott, 

252.  Mrs.  Edward  Storrs  Atwater, 

253.  Mrs.  Eva  C.  Hersey, 

254.  Mrs.  Martha  Bennett  Phelps, 
235.  Miss  Helen  Erben, 

256.  Mrs.  Marcus  Benjamin, 


Manchester,  N.  H. 
New  York  City. 
Chicago,  111. 
Lafayette,  Ind. 
Cincinnati,  O. 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 

Colorado  Springs,  Col. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 
Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 
New  York  City. 
Groton,  Conn. 
Sing  Sing,  N.  Y. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
New  York. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Bernardsville,  N.  J. 
New  York  City. 
New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 
Ardmore,  Pa. 
New  York  City. 
«        a 

Albany,  N.  Y. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 
Chicago,  111. 
Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 
Harrisburg,  Pa. 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Evanston,  111. 
New  York  City. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 
Radnor,  Pa. 
Washington,  D.  C. 


244 


BUILDING   OF   A   MONUMENT. 


257.  Mrs.  Anna  Scott  Paine  Worden, 

Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 

258.  Mrs.  M.  W.  Jackson, 

Bellefonte,  Pa. 

259.  Miss  Mary  Isabella  Forsyth, 

Kingston,  N.  Y. 

260.  Mrs.  Abbie  Cory  Turner, 

Cooperstown,  N.  Y. 

261.  Mrs.  Matthew  Henry  Robertson, 

Albany,  N.  Y. 

262.  Mrs.  Jessie  Glen  Shultz, 

Phillipsburg,  N.  J. 

263.  Mrs.  Emily  A.  Williams, 

Middletown,  Conn. 

*264.  Mrs.  E.  H.  Woodruff, 

265.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  S.  Coe, 

Cromwell,  Conn. 

266.  Mrs.  S.  P.  Townsend, 

Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y. 

267.  Mrs.  George  P.  Lawton, 

<«              «          » 

268.  Mrs.  Mary  A.  H.  Smith, 

Milford,  Conn. 

269.  Mrs.  Alice  M.  Stanley, 

New  Britain,  Conn. 

270.  Mrs.  Sara  T.  Kinney, 

New  Haven,  Conn. 

271.  Mrs.  Mary  B.  White, 

\  Little  Boar's  Head, 

272.  Miss  Elizabeth  M.  White, 

/      Northampton,  N.  H. 

273.  Mrs.  Delia  T.  Audubon  Tyler, 

New  Haven,  Conn. 

274.  Mrs.  Mary  Root  Wilcox, 

Middletown,  Conn. 

275.  Mrs.  Henry  T.  Bulkley, 

Southport,  Conn. 

276.  Miss  Frances  Wakeman, 

«             « 

277.  Mrs.  Julia  Du  Bois  James, 

Seymour,  Conn. 

278.  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Roberts, 

West  Chester,  Pa. 

279.  Mrs.  John  L.  Camp, 

Hartford,  Conn. 

280.  Mrs.  E.  K.  Hubbard, 

Middletown,  Conn. 

281.  Mrs.  Leland  Stanford, 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

282.  Mrs.  Mary  H.  Wilson, 

Middletown,  Conn. 

283.  Mrs.  William  B.  Thayer, 

Kansas  City,  Mo. 

284.  Mrs.  O.  V.  Coffin, 

Middletown,  Conn. 

285.  Miss  M.  P.  Keenan, 

Baltimore,  Md. 

286.  Mrs.  Julia  S.  Whittemore, 

Naugatuck,  Conn. 

287.  Miss  Sarah  S.  Bray  ton, 

Fall  River,  Mass. 

288.  Mrs.  F.  R.  Skinner, 

Hartford,  Conn. 

289.  Miss  M.  W.  Denny, 

Allegheny,  Pa. 

290.  Mrs.  Martha  Cameron  House, 

Pittsburg,  Pa. 

291.  Mrs.  Clara  A.  Cooley, 

Dubuque,  la. 

292.  Mrs.  H.  J.  Bailey, 

Pittsburg,  Pa. 

HEREDITARY    LIFE    MEMBERS. 


245 


293- 
294. 

295- 
296. 
297. 
298. 
299. 
300. 
301. 
302. 
3°3- 
304- 

*3°5- 
306. 

3°7- 
308. 

309- 
310. 

3"- 
312. 


3*5- 
316. 

3'7- 
318. 

319, 
320. 
321. 
322. 
323- 
324- 
325- 
326. 

327- 
328. 


Mrs.  Caroline  E.  H.  Davis, 

Miss  Irene  Stout, 

Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Wilcox, 

Mrs.  Charles  A.  Carroll, 

Mrs.  H.  S.  Ruggles, 

Mrs.  Chauncey  Stoddard, 

Mrs.  W.  A.  Conover, 

Mrs.  Sarah  Denison  Reilay, 

Miss  Mary  Cecelia  Ryan, 

Mrs.  Grace  A.  Merwin  Provoost, 


Meriden,  Conn. 
Dayton,  O. 
Meriden,  Conn. 
New  Brighton.Staten  I. 
Wakefield,  Mass. 
Plattsburg,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
Pennsylvania. 
Elizabeth,  N.  J. 
Dubuque,  la. 


Mrs.  Annie  Dryden  Parker  P.  Lyon,  Meriden,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Eugene  C.  Eaton,  Maiden,  Mass. 

Mrs.  George  Baty  Blake,  Boston,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Franklin  Farrell,  Ansonia,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Marshall  Calkins,  Springfield,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Rutherford  Trowbridge,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Charles  F.  Brooker,  Ansonia,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Maria  W.  Pinney,  Derby,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Mary  Josephine  Clark,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Eliot  C.  Clarke,  Boston,  Mass. 

Mrs.  E.  R.  Sprague, 

Mrs.  E.  J.  Cartwright, 

Mrs.  Florence  Hildredth  Nesmith 

Mrs.  George  W.  Grouard, 

Mrs.  Oliver  P.  Dickinson, 

Mrs.  Leonora  P.  Nesmith, 

Mrs.  Jane  Ten  Eyck  Sanders, 

Susan  Carrington  Clark  Chapter, 

Mrs.  Washington  Morton, 

Fannie  Ledyard  Chapter, 

Mrs.  Thomas  A.  Reilly, 

Mrs.  Lydia  W.  Noyes, 

Mrs.  Harriet  P.  Bradley, 

Miss  Mary  F.  de  Velasco, 

Massachusetts  Society  of  Colonial  Dames. 

Mrs.  E.  P.  Sohier,  Boston,  Mass. 


Brookline,  Mass. 
Lowell,  Mass. 
Reading,  Mass. 
Chicago,  111. 
New  York. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 
Meriden,  Conn. 
New  Brighton,  Staten  I. 
Mystic,  Conn. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Mystic,  Conn. 
Meriden,  Conn. 
New  York  City. 


246 


BUILDING   OF  A   MONUMENT. 


328.  Mrs.  E.  P.  Lohier, 

329.  Mrs.  Roberdeau  Buchanan, 

330.  Mr.  M.  H.  Dodge, 

331.  Mrs.  E.  H.  Harrison, 

332.  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Crane, 

333.  Mrs.  Nelson  Morris, 

334.  Mrs.  A.  K.  Rothschild, 

335.  Mrs.  I.  Bartholomew, 

336.  Mrs.  S.  V.  White, 

337.  Mrs.  G.  B.  Andrews, 

338.  Mrs.  J.  H.  Ogelsby, 

*339-  Mrs.  Fanny  Washington  Finch, 

340.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  S.  Reeder, 

341.  Mrs.  Mary  S.  Cochrane, 

342.  Mrs.  Caroline  F.  Warren, 

343.  Mrs.  Anna  Hill  Thomas, 

344.  Mrs.  James  W.  Bartlett, 

345.  Miss  Phebe  Northrup  Stoddard, 

346.  Mrs.  Joseph  E.  McWilliams, 

347.  Mrs.  Van  Leer  Kirkman, 

348.  Mrs.  Frederick  C.  Curtis, 

349.  Mrs.  Laura  Barnard  Thompson, 

350.  Mrs.  Mary  B.  Washington, 

351.  Mrs.  Cephas  B.  Rogers, 

352.  Mrs.  Ida  Pitt  Ritter, 

353.  Mrs.  Lizzie  J.  Birdseye, 

354.  Mrs.  Esther  B.  Noble, 

355.  Miss  Annie  Burr  Jennings, 

356.  Mrs.  Charlotte  O.  Van  Cleve, 

357.  Mrs.  S.  F.  Farnam, 

358.  Mrs.  Lora  Haines  Cook, 

359.  Mrs.  Julia  Tomlinson  Bishop, 

360.  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Griffin  Merrill, 

361.  Mrs.  S.  Isabelle  Hubbard, 

362.  Mrs.  Helen  Parmele  Handy  New- 

berry, 


Boston,  Mass. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
New  York  City. 
Lewisburg,  Pa. 
Dalton,  Mass. 
Chicago,  111. 
«          « 

Ansonia,  Conn. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
New  Orleans,  La. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Bellefonte,  Penn. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Boston,  Mass. 
New  York  City. 
Colorado  Springs,  Col. 
Poultney,  Vt. 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 
Nashville,  Tenn. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 
Milford,  Conn. 
Cedar  Hill,  Tenn. 
Meriden,  Conn. 
New  York  City. 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Norwalk,  Conn. 
New  York  City. 
Minneapolis. 
New  Haven,  Conn. 
Cooksburg,  Pa. 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 
San  Francisco,  Cal. 

Detroit,  Mich. 


HEREDITARY   LIFE   MEMBERS. 


247 


363.  Mrs.  Henry  Payne,  Milwaukee,  Wis. 

364.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Hazard  McCalla,         U.  S.  N. 

365.  Mrs.  Emma  Welch  Walcott,  New  York  Mills. 
^366.  Miss  Eugenia  Washington,  Washington,  D.  C. 

367.  Mrs.  A.  R.  Jones  (A.  Morton  Jones),  Brookline,  Mass. 

368.  Mrs.  Anna  E.  Lupton,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

369.  Mrs.  Theodora  H.  Wallace,  U.  S.  N. 

370.  Mrs.  Mary  B.  F.  Leiper,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

371.  Miss  Floretta  Vining,  Hull,  Mass. 

372.  Mrs.  Jane  Esther  Stone,  Washington,  D.  C. 

373.  Mrs.  David  L.  Stetson,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

374.  Mrs.  Jessie  Van  Zile  Belden,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

375.  Miss  Jeannette  Emma  Smith,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

376.  Mrs.  Lucy  W.  Whitney,  New  York  City. 

377.  Mrs.  Hattie  Nourse  Brockett,  Alexandria,  Va. 

378.  Mrs.  Emily  Warren  Roebling,  Trenton,  N.  J. 

379.  Miss  Mary  Van  Buren  Vanderpoel,     New  York  City. 

380.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  D.  Vail,  Denver,  Colorado. 

381.  Mrs.  Sarah  Billiard  Hatch,  Washington,  D.  C. 

382.  Mrs.  Phebe  C.  Wilson,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

383.  Mrs.  Ida  Saxton  McKinley,  Executive  Mansion. 

384.  Mrs.  Harriett  N.  Lothrop,  Concord,  Mass. 

385.  Miss  Dorothy  White,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

386.  John  Christy  Giles,  Jr.,  "  " 

387.  Mrs.  Minnie  M.  Kendrick,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

388.  Mrs.  Emily  N.  McGuire,  Washington,  D.  C. 

389.  Mrs.  Althea  T.  Bedle,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

390.  Mrs.  George  F.  Fuller,  Springfield,  Mass. 

391.  Mrs.  Helen  P.  Benedict,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

392.  Mrs.  Teresa  H.  English,  "  " 

393.  Mrs.  Florence  C.  Moseley,  «  " 

394.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  D.  Thaw,  Allegheny,  Pa. 

395.  Mrs.  Frances  Boatt  Moss,  Sandusky,  Ohio. 

396.  Mrs.  Ella  Myers  Peets,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

397.  Mrs.  W.  J.  Frisbie,  Camden,  N.  J. 

398.  Louisa  St.  Clair  Chapter,  Detroit,  Michigan. 


248 


BUILDING   OF   A   MONUMENT. 


399.  Mrs.  Rumina  Ayres  McClure, 

400.  Miss  Jennie  M.  Clarke, 

401.  Mrs.  Emeline  Joslin  Colony, 

402.  Mrs.  Mary  F.  Richmond, 

403.  Mrs.  Florence  D.  Talbot. 

404.  Mrs.  Emily  M.  Currier, 

405.  Miss  Martha  H.  Rigg, 

406.  Mrs.  Catherine  Hippie  Cook, 

407.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  R.  H.  Moulton, 

408.  Miss  Anne  Hampton  Barnes, 

409.  Mrs.  Lucy  Tarr  Fleming, 

410.  Mrs.  Helen  M.  Norton, 

411.  Mrs.  Levietta  Bartlett  Conner, 

412.  Mrs.  Emma  Kidwell  McCahill, 

413.  Mrs.  Sophie  W.  Sage, 

414.  Mrs.  Julia  Arnold  Bradley, 

415.  Mrs.  Emma  Stinson  Green, 

416.  Mrs.  Rachel  McM.  Miller, 

417.  Mrs.  Jerusha  T.  Rockwell, 

418.  Miss  Lilla  T.  Pechin, 

419.  Mrs.  Mary  Powers  Harris, 

420.  Mrs.  Grace  G.  F.  Reynolds, 

421.  Mrs.  Mary  Shelley  Pechin, 

422.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  C.  B.  Nourse, 

423.  Mrs.  Charlotte  M.  H.  Maurice, 

424.  Mrs.  Abigail  J.  H.  Dyer, 

425.  Mrs.  Margaret  Pratt  Myers, 

426.  Mrs.  Rosetta  R.  Hostetter, 

427.  Miss  Caroline  Pearson, 

428.  Mrs.  Nannie  Gilmore  Herr, 

429.  Miss  Sophie  Waples, 

430.  Miss  Emily  Ritchie  Perkins, 

431.  Mrs.  Florence  F.  McKinney, 


Little  Rock,  Ark. 
Providence,  R.  I. 
Keene,  N.  H. 
North  Adams,  Mass. 
Lynn,  Mass. 
Longwood,  Mass. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Rosemont,  Pa. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Chestnut   Hill,   Phila., 

Pa. 

Little  Rock,  Ark. 
Cincinnati,  Ohio. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
U.  S.  A. 

Southington,  Conn. 
Easton,  Pa. 
Turtle  Creek,  Pa. 
Southport,  Conn. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
«  « 

Wilkes-Barre,  Pa. 
Torega,  Botetourt  Co., 

Va. 

Absecon,  N.  J. 
Athens,  Pa. 
Rutland,  Vt. 
Plattsburg,  N.  Y. 
Allegheny,  Pa. 
Harrisburg,  Pa. 
«  ii 

Wilmington,  Del. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Chestnut    Hill,   Phila., 
Pa. 


HEREDITARY    LIFE   MEMBERS. 


249 


432.  Mrs.  Effie  Fleming  Disston, 

433.  Mrs.  Mary  Kate  Hancock, 

434.  Mrs.  Ida  Tucker  Morris, 

435.  Mrs.  Fannie  J.  Helmuth, 

436.  Miss  Mary  Benson, 

437.  Mrs.  Leah  Dale  Fassett, 

438.  Mrs.  Emily  H.  Roots, 

439.  Miss  Bessie  J.  Kibbey, 

440.  Mrs.  Mary  Gertrude  Kibbey, 

441.  Mrs.  Sara  L.  Lee, 

442.  Mrs.  Anna  Prettyman  Rowland, 

443.  Mrs.  Delia  Boardman  Conover, 

444.  Mrs.  Ellen  M.  Beale, 

445.  Miss  E.  Crowell, 

446.  Mrs.  Isabella  L.  Thompson, 

447.  Miss  Sara  W.  Daggett, 

448.  Mrs.  Eleanor  Howe  Nimick, 

449.  Mrs.  Anna  S.  W.  Smith, 

450.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  McC.  Miller, 

451.  Mrs.  Mary  Fairfax  Woodward, 

452.  Mrs.  Antoinette  F.  Wheeler, 

453.  Mrs.  Annie  B.  Shepard, 

454.  Mrs.  Mary  Hubbard  Bunce, 

455.  Mrs.  Margaret  R.  Pendleton, 

456.  Mrs.  Arabella  A.  Peterson, 

457.  Mrs.  Frederica  C.  T.  Getchell, 

458.  Miss  Myra  Hubbard  Avery, 

459.  Mrs.  Emma  C.  Humbird, 

460.  Mrs.  Annie  B.  Lamberton, 

461.  Miss  Virginia  Lewis  Mitchell, 

462.  Mrs.  Mary  Gertrude  Edson  Aldrich, 

463.  Mrs.  Emma  Lukens  Thompson, 

464.  Mrs.  Ellen  H.  M.  Peck, 

465.  Mrs.  Mary  Isabelle  Hervey, 

466.  Miss  Eleanor  Magruder, 


Chestnut    Hill,   Phila., 

Pa. 

Franklin,  Pa. 
Chicago,  Ills. 
New  York  City. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Franklin,  Pa. 
Little  Rock,  Ark. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Marshalltown,  la. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Chicago,  Ills. 
«          « 

Parkesburg,  Pa. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Atlantic  City,  N.  J. 
Boston,  Mass. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
U.  S.  N. 
U.  S.  N. 

Bridgeport,  Conn. 
East  Derry,  N.  H. 
Middletown,  Conn. 
Laurel,  Md. 
Lockport,  N.  Y. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Harrisburg,  Pa. 
Charlestown,  W.  Va. 
New  York  City. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Milwaukee,  Wis. 
Chicago,  111. 
Washington,  D.  C. 


250 


BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 


467.  Mrs.  Sophie  Knox  Garvin, 

468.  Mrs.  Margaret  Byers  Stanford, 

469.  Mrs.  Genevra  W.  Woodruff, 

470.  Mrs.  Ella  H.  Graeme, 

471.  Mrs.  Edith  Conant  Thornton, 

472.  Mrs.  Mary  K.  Browne, 

473.  Miss  Torquinia  L.  Voss, 

474.  Mrs.  Mary  C.  Hoffman, 

475.  Mrs.  Lida  McK.  Howard  Smith, 

476.  Mrs.  Florence  Gray  Estey, 

477.  Mrs.  Edna  P.  Davis, 

478.  Miss  Sarah  Doughty, 

479.  Mrs.  Susan  Babcock  Munson, 

480.  Mrs.  Mary  Clinton  Baldwin, 

481.  Mrs.  Caroline  Buchanan, 

482.  Mrs.  Henrietta  A.  Longley, 

483.  Mrs.  Emily  L.  A.  Thomson, 

484.  Mrs.  Katherine  R.  Wollcot  Verplanck, 

485.  Mrs.  Catherine  H.  T.  Avery, 

486.  Mrs.  Virginia  S.  Hodge, 

487.  Mrs.  Julia  T.  Scott, 

488.  Mrs.  Ellen  Damon  LaLanne, 

489.  Miss  Alice  A.  De  LaMar, 

490.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Eddy  Moody, 

491.  Mrs.  Alice  Greene  Crandall, 

492.  Mrs.  Antha  Clift  Buxton, 

493.  Mrs.  Caroline  Damon  Kerr, 

494.  Mrs.  Barbara  Eugenie  Williams, 

495.  Mrs.  Martha  L.  Chase, 

496.  Mrs.  Lillian  Ptke  Roome, 

497.  Mrs.  Virginia  Bulkley  Perry, 

498.  Mrs.  Ella  E.  T.  Saeger, 

499.  Mrs.  Susus  Embury  Blodgett, 

500.  Mrs.  Cornelia  Cole  Fairbanks, 


Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Harrisburg,  Pa. 
New  York  City 
Wilkes  Barre,  Pa. 
Pautucket,  R.  I. 
New  York  City. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 
New  York  City. 
Germantown,  Pa. 
Brattleboro,  Vt. 
Portland,  Me. 
Absecon,  N.  J. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 


Pautucket,  R.  I. 
New  York  City. 
Fishkill-on-  Hudson, 

N.  Y. 

Cleveland,  Ohio. 
«  « 

Bloomington,  111. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
New  York  City. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
New  London,  Conn. 
Middletown  Springs, 

Vt. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Waterbury,  Conn. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
Southport,  Conn. 
Allentown,  Pa. 
New  York  City. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 


HEREDITARY    LIFE    MEMBERS. 


251 


501.  Miss  Adele  Kneeland, 

502.  Mrs.  Mary  McGill  Gamble, 

503.  Mrs.  Marietta  Michael  Dedericke, 

504.  Mrs.  Jane  C.  Bevin, 

505.  Mrs.  Mary  Comstock  Vaits, 

506.  Mrs.  Rose  E.  Lytton, 

507.  Mrs.  Adeline  T.  Emerson, 

508.  Miss  Eliza  Mansfield, 

509.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  S.  Law, 

510.  Miss  Mary  Alice  Law, 

511.  Mrs.  Martha  Cilley  B.  Clarke, 

512.  Mrs.  Harriet  McGaw  Wood  bury, 

513.  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Foster, 

514.  Miss  Martha  Edwards  Beach, 

515.  Mrs.  Mary  Louise  Woodin, 
*$i6.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Foster  Woodin, 

517.  Mrs.  Annie  Jessup  Woodin, 

518.  Mrs.  Theodora  C.  Bailey, 

5  19.   Mrs.  Abby  Jane  Gray  Taylor, 

520.  Mrs.  Angeline  Ensign  Newman, 

521.  Mrs.  Fannie  A.  Welcher^ 

522.  Mrs.  Emily  Ripley  McGregor, 

523.  Mrs.  Ella  Petrie  Lamb  Jewett, 

524.  Mrs.  Harriet  S.  Boas, 

525.  Miss  Minnie  F.  Mickley, 

526.  Mrs.  Alice  H.  Van  Anden, 

527.  Mrs.  Frances  Hubbard  Larkin, 

528.  Mrs.  Emma  Embury  Cattus, 

529.  Miss  Emma  Embury  Cattus, 

530.  Mrs.  Francis  Larkin  Esty, 

531.  Miss  Isabella  Hale  Crandall, 

532.  Mrs.  Mary  Richardson  Welsh, 

533.  Mrs.  Augusta  M.  Dolph, 

534.  Mrs.  Francie  Grant  Wager, 

535.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Duncan  Thayer, 

536.  Mrs.  M.  Jenny  Platt, 


New  York  City. 
Plattsburg,  N.  Y. 
Albany,  N.  Y. 
East  Hampton,  Conn. 
New  London,  Conn. 
Chicago,  111. 
Rockford,  111. 
Peoria,  111. 
New  York  City. 
H  a 

Manchester,  N.  H. 
Bedford,  N.  H. 
Wilkes-Barre,  Pa. 
Bridgeport,  Conn. 
Berwick,  Pa. 


Denver,  Col. 
Boston,  Mass. 
New  York  City. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Newark,  N.  J. 
St.  Paul,  Minn. 
New  York  City. 
Allentown,  Pa. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
«  « 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. 
Yonkers,  N.  Y. 
Toledo,  O. 
Portland,  Ore. 
Cleveland,  O. 
North  Adams,  Mass. 
New  York. 


BUILDING    OF   A    MONUMENT. 


252 

537-  Mrs-  Ellen  M-  Colton, 

538.  Mrs.  Susan  Carrie  Elson  Clokey, 

359.  Mrs.  Emily  Hall  Hazen, 

540.  Mrs.  Alice  Henderson  Van  Tassel, 

541.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  M.  Gordon, 

542.  Mrs.  Annie  F.  Shardlow, 

543.  Mrs.  Sarah  B.  Camp, 

544.  Mrs.  Florence  Skidmore  Brown 

Menges, 

545.  Mrs.  Katie  P.  Farnham, 

546.  Mrs.  Eliza  Jumel  Caryl, 

547.  Mrs.  Mary  Stewart  Carey, 

548.  Miss  Helen  M.  Winslow, 

549.  Mrs.  Mary  E.  F.  Maynard, 

550.  Mrs.  Janette  Adams  Garner, 

551.  Mrs.  Mary  Little  Deere, 

552.  Mrs.  Christina  VonK.  Wade, 

553.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Cynthia  Barney  Buel, 

554.  Mrs.  Clara  Curtis  Qualey, 

555.  Mrs.  James  DeSoto  Giblin, 

556.  Mrs.  Janet  Watson  Seward, 

557.  Mrs.  Harriet  W.  Smith, 

558.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  O.  Galusha, 

559.  Mrs.  Caroline  Augusta  Warner, 

560.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Dismukes, 

561.  Mrs.  Hortense  Hay  Mclntire, 

562.  Mrs.  Henrietta  Candee  Weir  Hesing, 

563.  Mrs.  Frances  Ayres  Johnson  Gibbs, 

564.  Mrs.  Ella  Holmes  White, 

565.  Mrs.  Mathilde  von  T.  Iredell, 

566.  Mrs.  Emilie  D.  Martin, 

567.  Mrs.  Augusta  Danforth  Geer, 

568.  Mrs.  Medora  Sanford  Todd, 

569.  Miss  Stella  Florine  Broadhead, 

570.  Mrs.  Harriet  P.  Simpson, 

571.  Mrs.  Edith  Darlington  Ammon, 


California. 
Decatur,  111. 
Pelham  Manor,  N.  Y. 
Dubois,  Pa. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 
New  York  City. 
Winsted,  Conn. 
Saratoga  Springs,  N.  Y 

Yonkers,  N.  Y. 
Yonkers,  N.  Y. 
Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Roxbury,  Mass. 
Marquette,  Mich. 
Colorado  Springs,  Col. 
Moline,  Ills. 
Allegheny,  Pa. 
Litchfield,  Conn. 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
Troy,  N.  Y. 
Auburn,  N.  Y. 
New  York  City. 
Troy,  N.  Y. 
Troy,  N.  Y. 
Columbus,  Ga. 
Baltimore,  Md. 
Chicago,  Ills. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 
New  York  City. 
Allentown,  Pa. 
New  York  City. 
Washington,  D.  C. 
New  York  City. 
Jamestown,  N.  Y. 
Brookline,  Mass. 
Pittsburg,  Pa. 


HEREDITARY   LIFE   MEMBERS. 


253 


572.  Mrs.  Julia  Husted  Merrill, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

573.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Carroll  Abell, 

Baltimore,  Md. 

574.  Miss  Kate  M.  McKie, 

Cambridge,  N.  Y. 

575.  Mrs.  Ellen  Southwick  Hart, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

576.  Mrs.  Emily  A.  Peckham, 

Troy,  N.  Y. 

577.  Mrs.  Emilie  D.  Robb, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

578.  Mrs.  Caroline  M.  Murphy, 

Cincinnati,  O. 

579.  Mrs.  Caroline  Berry  Britton, 

New  York  City. 

580.  Mrs.  Katherine  Pratt  Horton, 

Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

581.  Mrs.  Mary  Wood  Swift, 

San  Francisco,  Cal. 

582.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  W.  Hoffecker, 

Wilmington,  Del. 

583.  Mrs.  William  L.  Cooney, 

Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

584.  Mrs.  Phebe  Armstrong  Sherwood, 

Ottawa,  Ills. 

585.  Mrs.  Edith  Wallace  Knowles, 

Wilmington,  Del. 

586.  Mrs.  Aurora  B.  McClellan, 

Athens,  Ala. 

587.  Miss  Louise  Holman  Haynes, 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 

588.  Mrs.  Catherine  A.  Bruce, 

New  York  City. 

589.  Mrs.  Annie  R.  McW.  Hain, 

«         « 

590.  Mrs.  Henrietta  Pyre  Benson, 

Troy,  N.  Y. 

591.  Mrs.  Mary  Hart  Wright, 

«        « 

592.  Miss  Mary  Harris  Pearson, 

Harrisburg,  Pa. 

593.  Miss  Ellen  Evans, 

Norristown,  Pa. 

594.  Mrs.  Betty  McG.  Smoot, 

Alexandria,  Va. 

595.  Mrs.  Frances  Bernard  Goolrick, 

Fredericksburg,  Va. 

596.  Miss  Susan  Carpenter  Frazer, 

Lancaster,  Pa. 

597.  Mrs.  Lizzie  S.  Belding, 

Rockville,  Conn. 

598.  Mrs.  Eugenia  W.  Daw, 

Lansingburgh,  N.  Y. 

599.  Mrs.  Katherine  Duncan  Smith, 

Birmingham,  Ala. 

600.  Mrs.  Josephine  Campbell  Rathbone, 

Hamilton,  Ohio. 

254 


BUILDING   OF   A   MONUMENT. 


DECEASED  MEMBERS  AND  INHERITORS. 


DECEASED  MEMBERS. 

1.  Mrs.  Amelia  C.  Waite. 
41.  Mrs.  Alice  C.  Bakewell. 
60.  Mrs.  Deborah  B.  Coleman. 
71.  Mrs.  Fanny  Thurston  Ballard. 

81.  Miss  Harriet  A.  Weed. 
113.  Mrs.  Sara  S.  Whiting. 

134.   Mrs.  Elizabeth  L.  Marquand. 

264.  Mrs.  E.  H.  Woodruff. 

400.  Miss  Susan  Carrington  Clarke. 

26.  Mrs.  Frances  M.  Stewart. 

77.  Mrs.  John  Townshend. 

100.  Mrs.  Frances  N.  Woodward. 
209.  Mrs.  Jane  Ives  Washburn. 
305.  Mrs.  George  Baty  Blake. 
4.  Mrs.  Margaretta  Hetzel. 

2.  Mrs.  Matilda  W.  Emory. 

339.  Mrs.  Fanny  Washington  Finch. 
56.  Mrs.  Mary  Parker  Corning. 

82.  Mrs.  Harriet  Cramer  Porter. 
124.  Miss  Alice  Thomison. 

126.  Mrs.  Mary  Ford  Bush. 

179.  Mrs.Margaret  Herbert  Mather. 

366.  Miss  Eugenia  Washington. 

133.  Mrs.  J.  Burrows  Greene. 
247.  Mrs.  Eliza  Warford  Hall. 


INHERITORS. 
Miss  Mary  F.  Waite. 
Mrs.  Ann  Katherine  Moorhead. 

Miss  Abby  Churchill  Ballard. 

Mrs.  Sara  Whiting  Rives. 
Mrs.  Linda  Marquand  Terry. 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Kellogg  Chase. 
Miss  Jennie  Clarke. 
Mrs.  Frances  Welles  Shepard. 
Mrs.    Mary     L.     Townshend 

Rennard. 

Miss  Mary  Evertson  Barrow. 
Miss  Grace  Ives  Washburn. 

Miss  Susan  Riviere  Hetzel. 
Miss   Victoria   de    Montholon 
Emory. 


Miss  Edith  T.  Herbert  Mather. 
Miss      Eugenia      Washington 

Moncure. 

Mrs.  Mary  Greene  Chapin. 
Miss  Grace  Hall. 


INSIGNIA. 
Reverse  Side. 


DECEASED    MEMBERS   AND    INHERITORS.         255 

DECEASED.  INHERITORS. 

182.  Mrs.  Person  C.  Cheney.  Mrs.  Agnes  Cheney  Fish. 

345.  Miss   Phebe  -Northrup   Stod- 

dard.  Mrs.  Frances  A.  H.  Rice. 

83.  Mrs.  Jerusha  Appleton.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  A.  Wynkoop. 

312.  Mrs.  Eliot  C.  Clark. 

112.  Mrs.  May  W.  Bowler.  Mrs.  Alice  W.  Bowler. 

516.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Foster  Woodin,  Miss  Elizabeth  Foster  Woodin. 


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